2009 News

  • Forty-Two Student-Athletes Earn 2009 Fall All-Conference Awards
    December 08, 2009
    One of the most successful fall sports seasons in Wittenberg history was capped by a tremendous haul of postseason awards from the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC).
  • Pfeifer Delivers Tigers' Second-Best Finish At Nationals
    November 21, 2009
    Wittenberg sophomore women's cross country runner Mary Pfeifer (Dublin, Ohio/Coffman) ran in the NCAA Division III Championship Meet Saturday, posting a 67th-place finish to cap off the Tigers' 2009 season.
  • Mary Pfeifer Qualifies For Nationals To Lead Tigers
    November 14, 2009
    TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - Women's cross country became the fifth Wittenberg fall sports team to earn representation in the NCAA postseason when sophomore Mary Pfeifer (Dublin, Ohio/Coffman) placed 11th in the Great Lakes Regional Meet at Rose-Hulman. The women's team finish of 7th of 34 is the team's best finish in its 21-year history. The men turned in a 25th-place finish out of 36 teams.
  • Tiger Women Excel At NCAC Championships
    October 31, 2009
    DELAWARE, Ohio - At the North Coast Athletic Conference Men's and Women's Cross Country Championships at Ohio Wesleyan on Saturday, the Wittenberg women outperformed their preseason expectations by placing second in the league, while the men were not so fortunate, despite several strong performances.
  • Tigers Take Top 10 Finishes At Wilmington Invitational
    October 16, 2009
    The Wittenberg Tigers made their final tune-up for the 2009 North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) championship meet a successful one, picking up a third-place finish on the women's side and a 10th-place finish on the men's side at the Wilmington Invitational.
  • Tigers Battle Top Teams At Rose-Hulman Pre-Regional Meet
    October 10, 2009
    TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - The Wittenberg cross country teams met the Great Lakes' best NCAA Division III competition on Saturday, running at the Great Lakes Regional Pre-Meet at Rose-Hulman. The women finished seventh of 15 teams, while the men turned in a 10th-place finish among 14 teams.
  • Tigers Run Well Against State's Best at All-Ohio Championships
    October 02, 2009
    DELAWARE, Ohio - Wittenberg's cross country resurgence continued at the annual All-Ohio Championship meet, hosted by Ohio Wesleyan University. In a meet that included all of the top teams in the state of Ohio, Wittenberg's women placed fourth of 21 NCAA Division III teams, while the Tiger men claimed 13th of 20 teams.
  • Short-handed Tigers Run Well At Otterbein Invitational
    September 26, 2009
    WESTERVILLE, Ohio - Most of Wittenberg University's top runners took the weekend off, but the ones who ran at the Otterbein Invitational performed well as the Tiger men placed 15th and the Tiger women finished eighth.
  • Tigers at Michigan State Invitational
    September 18, 2009
    EAST LANSING, Mich.- The Wittenberg men's and women's cross country teams competed in the non-team scoring Spartan Invitational at Michigan State on Friday, the men paced by junior Kevin Frick (Columbus, Ohio/Grandview) and the women led by sophomore Darcy Dubuc (Grand Haven, Mich./Grand Haven).
  • Tiger Teams Finish First In Wittenberg Invitational
    September 12, 2009
    SPRINGFIELD, Ohio - The Wittenberg Tiger men's and women's cross country teams defended their home-away-from-home turf with a pair of convincing wins in the Wittenberg Invitational at John Bryan State Park in nearby Yellow Springs.
  • Wittenberg Cross Country Teams Host 2009 Invitational Meet Sept. 12
    September 10, 2009
    The Wittenberg University men's and women's cross country teams continue the 2009 season with the annual Wittenberg Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 12, at John Bryan State Park in nearby Yellow Springs.
  • Tigers Run Well in Season-Opening Dayton Meijer Flyer Invitational
    September 05, 2009
    KETTERING, Ohio - The Wittenberg men's and women's cross country teams opened the 2009 season with solid performances at the University of Dayton Meijer Flyer Invitational, the women finishing second of five teams and the men fourth of five, competing in the intercollegiate division against Northern Kentucky, Findlay, Wayne State and Urbana.
  • NCAC Coaches Pick Women Third, Men Seventh In Preseason Polls
    August 24, 2009
    CLEVELAND, Ohio — For the seventh consecutive year, North Coast Athletic Conference coaches predicted that Allegheny would claim the NCAC men's cross country championship through annual preseason balloting. Oberlin was tabbed preseason favorites for the women's championship for the third time in the past four years.
  • Season Outlook
    August 20, 2009
    A young Wittenberg men's cross country team head into the 2009 season hoping to build off the momentum of the program's best finish in the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) in almost a decade. Fourth-year Head Coach Craig Penney returns most of the scoring pack from last year's squad that took seventh place at the NCAC Championships.