The 2023 class includes Julie Creech-Organ (women's swimming & Class of 2013), Ken Keller (wrestling & Class of 1998), Kevin Lucas (men's track & field & Class of 2001), Tim Wilson (men's basketball & Class of 1978) and Marque Jones Jr. (men's track & field/football & Class of 2009).
The 2023 class includes Julie Creech-Organ (women's swimming & Class of 2013), Ken Keller (wrestling & Class of 1998), Kevin Lucas (men's track & field & Class of 2001), Tim Wilson (men's basketball & Class of 1978) and Marque Jones Jr. (men's track & field/football & Class of 2009).
Nineteen Wilmington College student-athletes from the winter sports season earned Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) honors, the conference announced on Tuesday.
Audrey Bibb, Peyton Mullins, Rylee Kay Puthoff and Sierra Szuhay garnered Academic All-District honors and will be on the ballot for a chance at becoming an Academic All-American.
Freshman Makenna Garn earned All-Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) honors for the Wilmington College women's swimming team on the final day of the 2023 OAC Swimming & Diving Championships on Saturday.
WC had two individuals place in the consolation final of the 200-yard IM. Szuhay swum a time of 2:22.10 to finish third while Alayna Fierman took seventh with a time of 2:30.25. In the 50-yard freestyle, Garn placed seventh in the consolation final of the 50-yard freestyle with a mark of 25.95 seconds.
The Kiwanis Club of Wilmington honored several Wilmington College winter student-athletes as Athletic Scholar Leaders at a luncheon at First Lutheran Church of Wilmington on Thursday.
The Wilmington College women's swimming team has one final tune-up before the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) Championships as the Quaker travel to John Carroll University for a 1 p.m. conference dual on Saturday.
A familiar face has joined the Wilmington College men's & women's swimming teams as George Rickett joined the programs as an assistant coach in January.
The program also honored four seniors - Anna Endsley, Katrina Kanzari, Peyton Mullins and Sierra Szuhay - for swimming in the final home meet of their careers.
The Quakers, who moved up a spot after being in fourth at the conclusion of Saturday's events, finished with 580 points, edging West Virginia Wesleyan College by nine points. Davis & Elkins College won the invitational with 1,031 points while host Ohio Wesleyan University was second with 923 points.
As a team, the Quakers put up 354 points and are within striking distance of West Virginia Wesleyan College's 411 points. The host Battling Bishops are in second with 550.5 points while Davis & Elkins College leads the way with 724.5 points.
The Wilmington College women's swimming team closes out the 2022 calendar year with the two-day Corbiere-Merion Invitational hosted by Ohio Wesleyan University on Saturday and Sunday. Competition on both days is scheduled for 10 a.m. with an evening session on Saturday slated for a 5:30 p.m. beginning.
The Wilmington College women's swimming team tallied 10 a dozen top-three finishes with two victories, but Ohio Northern University (ONU) came out on top of the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) dual meet 185-73 on Friday evening.
The Wilmington College women's swimming team opened its 2022-23 season with a 162-42 Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) defeat to Baldwin Wallace University at the WC Natatorium on Saturday afternoon.
Some celebrate turning 50 years old with birthday cake and black balloons, or champagne and a nice dinner out, even buying a new car or traveling to Paris. Paula Stewart plans to spend as many as 12 grueling hours on a bicycle traversing a Colorado mountain's rocky path at nearly two miles above sea level.
The 2022 class includes men's basketball's Leroy Berry (class of 1980), men's soccer's Justin Saylor (class of 2006), women's swimming's Alisha Flatter (class of 2007), women's basketball's Kortney Kin (class of 2010) and men's tennis's Joe Freudenberg (class of 2010).