Wake Forest junior Cheyenne Woods fired a bogey-free 3-under 68 on Sunday to seal her first ACC individual championship. Woods finished the 54-hole event at 5-under par, which was seven shots better than Allie White of North Carolina.Categories: Athletics, Experiential Learning
When it comes to inequities concerning race and college sports, you can talk about changing rules or paying players, but in the end, the most important reform is providing players – even the at-risk ones – with a useful education, according to experts convened at Wake Forest’s “Losing to Win” conference.Categories: Alumni, Athletics, Happening at Wake
Though now in a wheelchair, former Wake Forest and NBA basketball star Rodney Rogers still has his familiar broad smile and an ability to engage an audience, as he did during an appearance on campus during the ‘Losing to Win” conference.Categories: Alumni, Athletics, Happening at Wake
In the race to have the best team, win the most games and make the most money, college sports programs have exploited student-athletes for university gains, according to some of the nation’s leading experts on race and intercollegiate sports. Those experts were gathered at Wake Forest as part of the "Losing to Win" conference.Categories: Athletics, Happening at Wake
An increasingly vocal group of experts is calling attention to the growing divide between the big business of NCAA sports and the well-being of student athletes who are generating record revenues for their universities.Categories: Athletics, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
"The 5th Quarter," a movie that pays tribute to Luke Abbate, whose brother Jon was a Wake Forest football player, premiered March 17. The movie showcases the support the Abbate family received from the football team and fans following Luke’s death. The 2006 team, predicted to finish last in the ACC, went on to the win the league title. The film opens to the public on March 25.Categories: Athletics
On Saturday, March 5, the Wake Forest Men’s Rugby club will take on the University of Maryland on Poteat Field, marking the first home game for the team as participants in the Atlantic Coast Rugby League (ACRL).Categories: Athletics, Happening at Wake, University Announcements
Paul Loeser, a member of the Wake Forest track team, traded in his running shoes Tuesday for a Dr. Seuss hat. He read "Oh The Places You'll Go" to students at Friedberg Elementary School as part of a celebration of Seuss' birthday. See the video.Categories: Athletics, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Baseball coach Tom Walter and player Kevin Jordan are both recovering well after kidney transplant surgery on Monday. Both expect to be released from the hospital this week and have been showered with support from the Wake Forest community.Categories: Athletics, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate
Baseball coach Tom Walter donated a kidney to one of his players, Kevin Jordan, on Monday. Jordan began to feel ill in January 2010 as a freshman, and he was diagnosed with ANCA vasculitis, requiring dialysis for about 10 hours a day. When Jordan’s family did not produce an ideal donor match, Walter volunteered.Categories: Athletics