2010 Signee List
Wingate, N.C.----Wingate University head coach
Joe Reich announces the 2010 Bulldog football signing class. Reich has signed 22 student-athletes for the 2010 season. The class includes 19 freshmen and three transfers (one sophomore, one junior and one senior).
Reich is pleased with the signing list. “We are very excited about this year’s signing class,” Reich says. “This is a very solid class. Our coaching staff believes we have filled important needs. We can’t wait to get these guys on campus.”
The newcomers will have big shoes to fill. Wingate’s 2009 seniors collected a school-record 30 victories. The Bulldogs have three student-athletes playing professional football:
John Bowman (Grey Cup champion Montreal Alouettes),
Kenwin Cummings (N.Y. Jets) and
David Jones (Cincinnati Bengals).
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.
(The Wingate University sports information office wishes to thank Bulldog assistant football coach
Tee Overman for compiling this list.)