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News Release: Erin Slattery Earns Academic All-District Honors

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Wittenberg University volleyball standout Erin Slattery, class of 2010 from Chagrin Falls, Ohio, has been recognized for the combination of her athletic and academic accomplishments with third-team CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America College Division All-District IV honors. Read More ...

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Tigers Finish 0-3 At Trinity National Invitational

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The eighth-ranked Wittenberg Tigers absorbed some punishment on the final weekend of the 2009 regular season after losing to three nationally ranked teams in the Trinity National Invitational. Read More ...

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Tigers Suffer Rare 3-0 Loss To UW-Oshkosh

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The Wittenberg volleyball team lost by a 3-0 margin for just the third time in the last three years, faltering under a blistering attack from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh to pick up only their fifth loss of the season. The match was decided by set scores of 25-21, 25-16 and 26-24. Read More ...

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Tigers Finish Perfect NCAC Campaign With Win At OWU

DELAWARE, Ohio — The Wittenberg Tigers put the finishing touches on their fourth consecutive undefeated North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) regular season, sweeping host Ohio Wesleyan 3-0 by scores of 25-20, 25-5, 25-16. Read More ...

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Tigers Bounce Back For Second Day Sweep At Heidelberg Quad

TIFFIN, Ohio — After their first loss in more than a month on Friday against nationally ranked Heidelberg, the Wittenberg Tigers made full use of their expansive roster to complete a second-day sweep at the Heidelberg Quad Saturday with wins over Webster and Carthage. Read More ...

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Tigers Fall In Key Regional Match At Heidelberg

TIFFIN, Ohio — Playing before a charged-up home crowd in the first match of the two-day Heidelberg Quad, the Wittenberg Tigers came up just short in a battle between two of the top teams in the Great Lakes Region. Read More ...

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Tigers Break Conference Record, Clinch NCAC Title With Sweep Of Earlham

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — The Wittenberg Tigers continued to roll through the 2009 North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) schedule, cruising past Earlham 3-0. Along the way, the Tigers clinched a 12th outright NCAC regular season title in 13 years (fourth in a row) while breaking the conference record with their 64th consecutive NCAC regular season victory. Read More ...

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Tigers Clinch Share of 12th NCAC Title In 13 Years

RICHMOND, Ind. — It wasn't their best day - especially by the lofty standards of one of the most successful volleyball programs in all of NCAA Division III over the last 20 years - but the Wittenberg Tigers continued their march through the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) with matching 3-1 wins over Oberlin and Denison. Read More ...

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Tigers Inch Closer To Conference Title With Pair Of Key Wins

RICHMOND, Ind. — The Wittenberg Tigers took two more important steps toward another North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) regular season championship with a pair of convincing 3-0 wins over two of their closest pursuers. Read More ...

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Denison Proves No Match For High-Powered Tigers

GRANVILLE, Ohio — The Wittenberg Tigers continued to roll through yet another North Coast Athletic Conference schedule, cruising past host Denison, 3-0, to remain unbeaten in 2009 regular season action. Read More ...

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Tigers Run NCAC Regular Season Win Streak To 58

HIRAM/OBERLIN, Ohio — For the first time in two years, the Wittenberg Tigers were extended beyond three sets in a North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) regular season match. By day's end, however, the Tigers had put the finishing touches on a difficult two-day, three-match conference road trip with a 3-0 record after wins over Allegheny, Hiram and Oberlin. Read More ...

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MEADVILLE, Pa. — The Wittenberg volleyball team continues to plow through North Coast Athletic Conference competition, dropping Allegheny by a 3-0 mark Friday night to move to 11-3 overall and 7-0 in league action, all in straight sets. Read More ...

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Tigers Roll Past Wooster On Senior Recognition Night

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — It was business as usual for the Wittenberg Tigers on Senior Recognition Night 2009. After Head Coach Paco Labrador introduced a six-player senior class that has never lost a North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) match to a boisterous, appreciative home crowd, the Tigers proceeded to dispatch Wooster 3-0. Read More ...

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Tigers Pick Up NCAC Win With Sweep Of Kenyon

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — The Wittenberg volleyball team took two more straight set wins on Day Two of the North Coast Athletic Conference Power Weekend at Allegheny, setting down Kenyon by scores of 25-12, 25-21 and 25-21 and Wooster by scores of 25-18, 25-21 and 25-13. The Tigers finish the first NCAC weekend with a perfect 4-0 mark in league action and an 8-3 record overall, taking all 12 sets they played. Read More ...

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Tigers Take Another Straight Set Win At Power Weekend

MEADVILLE, Pa. — The Wittenberg volleyball team took two more straight set wins on Day Two of the North Coast Athletic Conference Power Weekend at Allegheny, setting down Kenyon by scores of 25-12, 25-21 and 25-21 and Wooster by scores of 25-18, 25-21 and 25-13. The Tigers finish the first NCAC weekend with a perfect 4-0 mark in league action and an 8-3 record overall, taking all 12 sets they played. Read More ...

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Tigers Start NCAC Action With Two Wins

MEADVILLE, Pa. — The Wittenberg volleyball team finished up its first day of the opening North Coast Athletic Conference Power Weekend at Allegheny College with two straight set wins, first over Ohio Wesleyan by scores of 25-12, 25-9 and 25-18, and then over Earlham by scores of 25-15, 25-10 and 25-11. The Tigers improve to 6-3 overall with the wins, and are owners of a perfect 2-0 record in NCAC action. Read More ...

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Tigers Come Up Just Short At No. 4 Ranked Ohio Northern

ADA, Ohio — A much-anticipated showdown between the two most successful NCAA Division III volleyball programs in the Great Lakes Region over the last decade went right down to the wire - just as one would expect. This storied rivalry added exciting chapter, albeit one that the Wittenberg Tigers will not reflect on fondly as the fourth-ranked Polar Bears escaped with a 3-2 win over the ninth-ranked Tigers. Read More ...

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Tigers Split On Day 2 Of 2009 Border Battle Ohio Wins State Bragging Rights Again

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — The Wittenberg Tigers rounded out the 2009 Border Battle with a strong performance against Edison Community College and a hard-fought loss to eighth-ranked Hope College. Read More ...

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Tigers Win Twice On Day 1 Of 2009 Border Battle

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — The Wittenberg Tigers had to dig deep, responding to the challenges posed by Calvin and Alma for a pair of victories on Day 1 of the 2009 Border Battle, hosted by Wittenberg. Read More ...

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News Release: Tigers To Host Fifth Annual Border Battle, Raises Money For Service Projects In Lesotho, Africa

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — The Wittenberg University volleyball team, ranked 12th in the latest American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) NCAA Division III poll, hosts its fifth annual Border Battle Friday and Saturday, Sept. 18-19. For the second straight year, the event will have a global awareness theme, with a fundraising effort to benefit children of the impoverished African kingdom of Lesotho. Read More ...

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Tigers Split With Thomas More, Mount St. Joseph

CINCINNATI, Ohio — After an 11-day layoff, the ninth-ranked Wittenberg Tigers showed some rust in the return to action, losing to Thomas More College before rebounding to defeat the host Lions in the Mount St. Joseph Invitational. Read More ...

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Tigers Open 2009 Campaign With Defeat Of Cedarville

CEDARVILLE, Ohio — The Wittenberg Tigers, ranked ninth in NCAA Division III by the American Volleyball Coaches Association in their 2009 preseason poll, opened the 2009 season with a solid 3-1 victory at neighboring scholarship program Cedarville. Read More ...

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AUDIO EXTRA: Head Coach Paco Labrador Previews 2009 Season

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Can the Tigers make it back to the NCAA Division III Final Four after a three-year streak was interrupted in 2008? Head Coach Paco Labrador discusses the team's chances. Read More ...

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News Release: Tigers Top NCAC Preseason Poll For Ninth Straight Season

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Wittenberg University emerged as the preseason favorite in balloting by North Coast Athletic Conference volleyball coaches conducted via email ballot. The Tigers, who won the NCAC title with a 16-0 record and earned their 14th conference tournament title last fall, earned all nine first-place votes from league coaches to total 81 points. Wittenberg topped second-place Hiram by a 10-point margin. Read More ...

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News Release: Tigers Open 2009 Season Ranked No. 9 In The Nation

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — With a reputation as a perennial national title contender burnished by 14 straight NCAA Division III Tournament appearances, including three straight national semifinal berths between 2005 and 2007, the Wittenberg Tigers have once again earned the respect of voters in the 2009 American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) preseason poll. Wittenberg, which has finished the season ranked in the top seven each of the last five years, will start the 2009 campaign ranked No. 9. Read More ...

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News Release: Tigers Earn Ninth AVCA Team Academic Award

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Wittenberg University's volleyball team was one of a record 409 high school and college programs to earn a 2008-09 American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award. The award, initiated in the 1992-93 academic year, annually honors men's and women's college and high school teams that display excellence in the classroom. Read More ...

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News Release: Head Coach Paco Labrador Announces 2009 Wittenberg Volleyball Recruiting Class

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Kelli Axner from Dublin, Ohio, Jessie Batanian from Toledo, Ohio, Hallie Donathan from Tipp City, Ohio, Christina Gilene from Milford, Ohio, Hillary Hassink from Tulsa, Okla., Megan Lutz from Westerville, Ohio, Hillary Monnin from Russia, Ohio, Jordan Mungovan from Fort Wayne, Ind., Hannah Riley from Minerva, Ohio, and Rachel Wolverton from London, Ohio, have decided to continue her athletic and academic careers at Wittenberg University, Tiger Head Coach Paco Labrador announced. Read More ...

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News Release: Wittenberg Hosts Wide Range Of Summer Sports Camps in 2009

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — As usual, summer will be a busy time around the Wittenberg University athletics complex in 2009. Nine different Wittenberg varsity athletic teams – men's basketball, women's basketball, field hockey, football, women's lacrosse, men's soccer, women's soccer, tennis and volleyball – are sponsoring summer camps this year. Read More ...

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News Release: Assistant Coach Brittany Baume Earns AVCA Top Thirty Under 30 Award

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Once upon a time, Brittany Baume, Wittenberg class of 2002, thought her future was in the medical profession. Less than a decade later, Baume has been recognized as one of the top young volleyball coaches in America with a Thirty Under 30 Award from the American Volleyball Coaches Association. Read More ...

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News Release: Four Wittenberg Representatives Attend NCAA Division III Student-Athlete Regional Leadership Conference

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Three Wittenberg University student-athletes and Men's and Women's Tennis Head Coach Justin Stuckey attended an NCAA Division III Student-Athlete Regional Leadership Conference in Chicago, Jan. 23-25. Read More ...

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