2010-11 News
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Legendary Coach, Administrator And Professor Dave Maurer Passes Away
July 30, 2011SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Known to so many Wittenberg University alumni simply as "Coach," legendary coach, administrator and professor Dave Maurer passed away Saturday, July 30, at the age of 79. -
Wittenberg Women's Swimming And Diving Team Earns National Academic Award
July 23, 2011Springfield, Ohio — Wittenberg University's women's swimming and diving team recently earned a 2011 College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Scholar All-America Team award after posting a sterling 3.16 cumulative team grade point average.
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Molly Gustafson Earns All-America Honors in 100 Breaststroke
March 25, 2011KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Freshman 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 at the NCAA Division III Women's Swimming & Diving Championship Meet. She initially qualified for the meet as an alternate.
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Molly Gustafson Earns Late Invite To NCAA Championships
March 11, 2011SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — It initially appeared that Molly Gustafson (West Hartford, Conn./Conard) would come up just short of her goal to compete in the 2011 NCAA Division III Championship meet. As Spring Break began, however, she learned that her status as an alternate had suddenly changed.
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B Cut Relay Highlights Wittenberg Performances At Last Chance Meet
February 19, 2011GAMBIER, Ohio — For most of the members of the Wittenberg swimming and diving teams, the end of the 2010-11 season came a week ago at the NCAC Championships.
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Tiger Teams Finish Strong On Final Day Of 2011 NCAC Championship Meet
February 12, 2011CANTON, 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.
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Tiger Teams Hang Tough On Day 2 Of 2011 NCAC Championship Meet
February 11, 2011CANTON, 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.
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Tiger Teams Solid On Day 1 Of 2011 NCAC Championship Meet
February 10, 2011CANTON, Ohio — The Wittenberg swimming and diving teams got off to an outstanding start to the 2011 North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Championship meet.
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Tigers Cap Dual Season With Loss At Kenyon
January 29, 2011GAMBIER, Ohio — The Wittenberg Tigers put the finishing touches on the 2010-11 dual meet season with a solid performance at Kenyon College.
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Wittenberg Swimming And Diving Coach Tops 100 Career Dual Meet Wins
January 28, 2011Springfield, 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.
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Tigers Celebrate Seniors By Beating Centre
January 22, 2011SPRINGFIELD, 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.
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Big Wins Over Visiting Hiram For Tigers
January 15, 2011SPRINGFIELD, 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.
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Tiger Teams Turned Back By Denison
January 14, 2011GRANVILLE, Ohio — The Wittenberg men's and women's swimming & diving teams took to the road and resumed their dual meet schedule at Denison.
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Tiger Swimmers Place Second At DePauw Invitational; Divers Strong At Rose-Hulman
December 04, 2010GREENCASTLE/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.
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Wittenberg Swimmer Named Semifinalist For Coach Wooden Citizenship Award
December 03, 2010Springfield, 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.
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Tiger Swimming And Diving Teams Raise Awareness, Money For Cancer Research
November 24, 2010Springfield, 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."
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Tigers Sweep Second Home Double Dual Meet Of The Season
November 20, 2010SPRINGFIELD, 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.
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Busy Weekend Starts With Loses To Ohio Northern
November 19, 2010ADA, 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.
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Tigers Sweep Double Dual Hosting Wilmington, Transylvania
November 13, 2010SPRINGFIELD, 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.
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Tigers Split Double Dual Down The Middle, Wins Over Franklin, Losses To Depauw
November 06, 2010GREENCASTLE, 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.
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Tiger Men Win Big, Women Fall Just Short At Wooster
October 30, 2010WOOSTER, 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.
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Tigers Start Dual Schedule Off With Big Win Over Ohio Wesleyan
October 29, 2010SPRINGFIELD, 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.
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Tiger Teams Open Season At NCAC Relays
October 23, 2010GAMBIER, 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.
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Wittenberg Alumnus Receives Fulbright Scholarship For The 2010-2011 Academic Year
October 22, 2010Springfield, 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.
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Wittenberg Swimming And Diving Individuals Earn Academic Awards
July 19, 2010Springfield, 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.
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Wittenberg Student Pursues Passion Serving Victims Of Haitian Earthquake
July 06, 2010Conor 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.
