Wingate hosts Pfeiffer and Lenoir-Rhyne for Senior Day meet Saturday
1/15/2010 9:29:20 PM
Wingate, N.C.----The Wingate University men’s and women’s swimming teams will look to continue their successes this weekend as they swim against Lenoir-Rhyne University and Pfeiffer University for the senior day swim meet Saturday afternoon. The first event will begin at 2 p.m. in the Wingate University natatorium.
The Bulldog men’s and women’s teams are familiar with both Pfeiffer and Lenoir-Rhyne, as both schools participated in the WU Fall Frenzy meet Nov. 21-22. Seven women’s teams and five men’s teams participated in this year’s WU Fall Frenzy event earlier this swim season.
The Bulldog seniors will swim their last swim meet at the Wingate University Natatorium Saturday. The 12 Wingate seniors have been very successful throughout their years of college swimming. The men have added two Blue Grass Mountain Conference championships (2008, 2009) to the school’s two women’s crowns from 2004 and 2005. At the 2009 national meet, the Bulldog men finished sixth and the Wingate women placed 32nd.
The Bulldogs are currently undefeated in dual meet competition. They are looking forward to this weekend to keep the streak alive. Wingate’s 12 seniors (nine men, three women) will be honored during one of the meet’s breaks.
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 17 NCAA Division II sports. Wingate University has won the South Atlantic Conference Echols Athletic Excellence Award for the past three years.
Wingate University is ranked number three among NCAA Division II Academic All-America® producing schools in the 2000’s with 34 honorees during this millennium. Only Pittsburg State (Kan.) University and Truman State (Mo.) University have produced more Academic All-America® honorees during this time period. Wingate’s 43 Academic All-America® honorees (lifetime) is tops among all SAC schools.
(Wingate University senior Carlos Jones contributed this article. Jones is a Business Management major from Decatur, Ga.)