Wingate, N.C.----The Wingate University women’s basketball and women’s soccer teams are partnering to support the
Soles4Souls campaign Wednesday night in conjunction with Wingate’s home South Atlantic Conference basketball doubleheader versus Lenoir-Rhyne University.
Bulldog fans can donate a pair of gently used or new shoes and receive $2 off the ticket price Wednesday night. This promotion will continue for Wingate’s remaining regular season basketball schedule. All types of shoes are accepted: athletic, running, dress, sandals, pumps, heels, work boots, cleats and flip flops...as long as they are gently worn or new.
Wingate head women’s basketball coach
Barbara Nelson and her staff will coach barefoot Wednesday, Jan. 27 to help raise awareness for the need for supplies in Haiti. “We (Americans) watch the newscasts…and wonder…what can I do to help the citizens of Haiti,” Nelson says.
“Of course, monetary donations are one way of helping,” Nelson acknowledges. “We felt we could do more. I must give credit to (Wingate assistant women’s soccer coach)
Faith Bicknell. God brought this charity to her attention…and she asked us to help her team.”
Donations will be accepted at the Cannon Athletic Complex and Cuddy Arena for the remainder of the basketball regular season. For more information, please contact
Faith Bicknell at f.bicknell@wingate.edu. For more information on Soles4Souls, visit their web site at
http://www.soles4souls.com/.
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.
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.