Buckhannon, W.Va.----Wingate University senior
Mason Norman (Duluth, Ga.) is this week’s Blue Grass Mountain Conference (BGMC) Swimmer of the Week, league officials announced Wednesday. The BGMC Swimmers of the Week are selected by the league’s head coaches.
A three-year All-American for the Bulldogs, Mason Norman helped number eight Wingate win the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Invitational for the third year in a row. Norman won three individual events. In addition, he helped the Bulldogs earn the gold medal in four relay races.
Individually, the
ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® candidate posted an NCAA Division II “A” Cut in the 100 Freestyle (45.25) and the 100 Breaststroke (56.82, preliminaries). Thanks to the efforts of Norman and his teammates, Wingate recorded “A” Cuts in the 400 Freestyle Relay (3:04.00) and the 800 Freestyle Relay (6:49.10).
The SCAD event completes Wingate’s first semester schedule. The Bulldogs will take a break for final exams Dec. 7-12 before departing for their annual Florida training trip after Christmas.
On the women’s side, Converse College freshman
Jenni Russell (Tega Cay, S.C.) is this week’s BGMC Swimmer of the Week. Russell notched two first-place finishes at the SCAD Invitational.
She touched first in the 400 Individual Medley with a time of 4:37.05. Russell won the 200 Breaststroke with a time of 2:22.47. Both of these times were NCAA Division II “B” Cuts with the Breaststroke time only 0.30 away from an NCAA “A” Cut.
WINGATE UNIVERSITY
Founded in 1896, Wingate University is a private four-year co-educational institution of 2,159 students offering active learning opportunities through personalized instruction, world travel, career discovery and community service.
Wingate offers more than 40 undergraduate majors in arts and sciences, business, communication, education, fine arts, music and sport sciences. It also offers graduate degrees in business, education, physician assistant studies and sport administration. In addition, the school awards the doctor of pharmacy and the doctor of education degrees.
Bulldog student-athletes compete in 19 NCAA Division II sports. Wingate University has won the South Atlantic Conference Echols Athletic Excellence Award for the past three years.