WILMINGTON, Ohio – The Wilmington College athletic department announced today that Michael Pagano has been named their new Director of Athletic Communications. “We are excited to have Michael join the Wilmington College family as our new Director of Athletic Communications” said Senior Director of Athletics Bill Wilson. “He brings with him experience and skills that will elevate our ability to tell the stories of our student-athletes, coaches, and programs. He will be a great addition to our athletics leadership team.”
Brausch, a native of Wilmington and graduate of Wilmington High School, is pursuing a master of science degree in human performance from Liberty University.
Wilmington College Head Swimming Coach & Director of Aquatics Trip Breen has announced the hiring of Cole Huggard as an assistant coach with both programs.
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).
Blankespoor, who beings a four-year appointment as chair, joined the committee in 2015 and moved into the operations coordinator position prior to the 2019-20 academic year. He has been in the vice chair roll for the last two years, assisting outgoing chair Kevin Lanke with program duties.
Durr, who has been an assistant coach for the last four seasons, takes the reins from Head Coach Ron Combs, who has been the College's head track & field coach for a quarter century. Combs won't be going far, however, as he will remain head cross country coach and transition to assistant track & field coach.
Academic All-Conference selections have at least a cumulative 3.5 grade-point average (GPA) at the end of the semester preceding the end of the spring season and be a sophomore academically or above. The student-athlete must also be a member of a varsity team, in a sport sponsored by the league, as well as be enrolled in a full-time capacity.
Sadie Devore, Molly Hafer, Abby Lodewyck, Megan Roell and Kylee Schafer garnered Academic All-District honors and will be on the ballot for a chance at becoming an Academic All-American.
Nathan Borgan, Simon Heys, Luke Pennington, George Rickett and Noah Tobin garnered Academic All-District honors and will be on the ballot for a chance at becoming an Academic All-American.
The Wilmington College department of athletics is happy to join the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC), its member institutions and the Joe Baab Culinary Fights Cancer Foundation (501c3 Charity) to fight against cancer for the first annual OAC For CFC Conference-Wide Competition from April 3-7.
Nineteen Wilmington College student-athletes from the winter sports season earned Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) honors, the conference announced on Tuesday.
OKI Incorporated, an audio-visual equipment company based out of Columbus, installed the Q-SYS EcoSystem, picked specifically for Wilmington College and its audio requirements for athletic contests, commencement and other live events.
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.
Due to weather in the region, both Wilmington College basketball games against Ohio Northern University scheduled for today (Wednesday, Jan. 25) have been postponed until tomorrow (Thursday, Jan. 26).
Academic All-Conference selections have at least a cumulative 3.5 grade-point average (GPA) at the end of the semester preceding the end of the spring season and be a sophomore academically or above. The student-athlete must also be a member of a varsity team, in a sport sponsored by the league, as well as be enrolled in a full-time capacity.
Kiwanis is an international service organization dedicated to helping kids locally and around the world. The Wilmington club has been actively helping kids for 40 years and the international group has been working for 100-plus years. Wilmington Kiwanis sponsors the East Clinton, Clinton-Massie and Wilmington Key Clubs. It also sponsors two soccer tournaments at Wilmington College, awards a $1,000 scholarship to a student at Wilmington College or Southern State along with many other things.