Two Wittenberg University student-athletes were among 300 participants representing schools throughout the nation and across all three NCAA divisions in attendance at the four-day NCAA Career in Sports Forum in Indianapolis, Ind., June 7-10.
Sarah Watson, class of 2012 from Hudson, Ohio, has trained service dogs, given campus tours, maintained an exemplary grade point average and participated in community service projects on two different continents since arriving at Wittenberg University in 2008.
Wittenberg University basketball standouts Clayton Black, class of 2012 from Lancaster, Ohio, and Sarah Watson, class of 2012 from Hudson, Ohio, have been selected to participate in the fourth annual Jump25.com/Ohio College All-Star Classic on Saturday, April 14, at Ohio Dominican University in Columbus, Ohio.
Sarah Watson, class of 2012 from Hudson, Ohio, earned her second straight second-team All-NCAC award, while Katelyn Haralamos, class of 2015 from Maineville, Ohio, picked up honorable mention recognition.
For the third time in the 2011-12 season, nationally ranked DePauw wore down the Wittenberg women's basketball team, this time securing a berth in the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Tournament championship game with a 69-52 victory.
The Wittenberg women's basketball team outscored host Ohio Wesleyan 30-11 over the last 15 minutes of the first half and carried that momentum to an 85-62 North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) victory.
The Wittenberg women's basketball senior class made their final 2011-12 regular season appearance a memorable one, overcoming a slow start to pick up a 72-45 victory over visiting Wooster.
Slow starts have repeatedly hurt the Wittenberg Tigers on the road in 2011-12. The script played out once again at Denison in a 70-57 loss to the host Big Red.
Perhaps Head Coach Sarah Jurewicz should coach every game in bare feet. If her team plays as well as it did in an 87-76 victory over Allegheny, she may have to consider it.
When Wittenberg University Women's Basketball Head Coach Sarah Jurewicz walks into Pam Evans Smith Arena for a pivotal North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) game against Allegheny at 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4, she will be wearing a favorite pair of shoes. Just before tip-off, however, Jurewicz will remove them in an effort to raise awareness of the plight of millions of children around the world.
The Wittenberg women's basketball team found its shooting stroke at just the right time, and predictably, the end result was a much-needed 85-59 victory over visiting Ohio Wesleyan.
A 17-2 run to end the first half broke open a close game and propelled the short-handed Wittenberg women's basketball team to a 67-43 North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) victory.
After falling behind 8-0 to start the game and then allowing a back-breaking 18-0 run near the end of the first half, the Wittenberg Tigers found the mountain too difficult to scale in a 74-51 setback at Kenyon.p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 25.
Over and over again during the 2011-12 season, the Wittenberg women's basketball team has shown great resiliency. Never was their mettle more than in the second half against defending North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) champion Denison, but again the Tigers rose to the challenged to secure a clutch 59-57 win over the Big Red.
Less than 24 hours after turning in perhaps their finest defensive effort of the 2011-12 season, the Wittenberg Tigers ran into a buzzsaw as Allegheny hit more than 50 percent of its three-point attempts in a 69-61 North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) victory.
Statistically, at the very least, the Wittenberg Tigers turned in their best defensive effort of the 2011-12 season, holding Hiram to 23 percent shooting from the field in a 62-41 win over the Terriers.
For Kiley McCollough, Wittenberg University class of 2014 from Noblesville, Ind., three days at an NCAA Student-Athlete Leadership Forum in November provided "a huge opportunity for personal growth."
For the first time since 2004, the Wittenberg women's basketball team celebrated a championship in their mid-season home tournament after a hard-fought 62-48 victory over Wilmington in the final game of the 2011 Charles B. Zimmerman Memorial Classic.
Freshman Katelyn Haralamos (Maineville, Ohio/Kings) scored all 14 of her points in the second half to lead the Wittenberg Tigers to a 69-54 victory over Rose-Hulman in the opening game of the 2011 Charles B. Zimmerman Memorial Classic for both teams.
The Wittenberg University men's and women's basketball teams welcome an outstanding field of eight teams for the 2011 Charles B. Zimmerman Memorial Classic. The competition is scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 29, and Friday, Dec. 30, at Wittenberg's Pam Evans Smith Arena in the HPER Center, with games on both days scheduled for noon, 2:15, 4:30 and 7 p.m.
Thomas More hit nine three-point field goals in finding a way past the Wittenberg women's basketball team, which fell to 3-5 overall following a 78-62 loss to the Saints on Saturday afternoon.
After falling behind by 16 points in the first half against one of the top teams in the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC), the Wittenberg Tigers could have thrown in the towel. Instead, they fought back to take a second-half lead, only to see visiting Kenyon pull out a 66-62 victory.
The Wittenberg Tigers pulled away from visiting Oberlin in the second half to secure a 67-50 victory in the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) opener for both teams.
After two weeks of long bus rides and cold shooting, the Wittenberg Tigers found the friendly confines of Pam Evans Smith Arena much more to their liking in an 80-65 victory over Earlham.
The Wittenberg women's basketball team made it interesting, but ultimately the Tigers fell to Capital University 49-38 on the road Tuesday night to move to 1-3 overall on the season.