2010-11 News
SPRINGFIELD, 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.
Springfield, 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.
KNOXVILLE, 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.
SPRINGFIELD, 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.
GAMBIER, 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.
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.
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.
CANTON, Ohio — The Wittenberg swimming and diving teams got off to an outstanding start to the 2011 North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Championship meet.
GAMBIER, Ohio — The Wittenberg Tigers put the finishing touches on the 2010-11 dual meet season with a solid performance at Kenyon College.
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.
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.
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.
GRANVILLE, Ohio — The Wittenberg men's and women's swimming & diving teams took to the road and resumed their dual meet schedule at Denison.
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.
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.
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."
