2008 WAKE FOREST TRACK AND FIELD MEDIA GUIDE GENERAL INFORMATION Quick Facts WFU ON THE WEB E-MAIL SERVICE Table of Contents/Credits . .1 Log on to the official Wake Please contact Media Wake Forest University . .2-3 2008 TRACK & FIELD INFORMATION Forest University athletic website Relations Athletics Assistant Katy Strength and Conditioning . .4 Director . .Annie Schweitzer Bennett to find updated track & field infor- Hamlett ([email protected]) to Sports Medicine . .5 Bennett’s Email . [email protected] mation all season. The site will be added to the Wake Forest Track Student-Athlete Services . .6 Bennett’s Phone . .336-758-4871 Assistant Director . .Scott Hall include rosters, schedules, results, & Field e-mail service which game stories, feature stories, pic- includes press releases, postgame THE COACHING STAFF Hall’s Email . [email protected] Director of Track and Field Hall’s Phone . .336-758-5860 tures, season statistics and recaps, weekly releases and addi- Annie Bennett . .7 Assistant Coach . .Amber Larsen archived history. Following the tional updates. Larsen’s Email . [email protected] Men’s Head Coach Scott Hall . .8 conclusion of meets, recaps and Larsen’s Phone . .336-758-3872 results can be found on the web at PHOTOGRAPHERS Assistant Coach Mike Bennett . .9 Assistant Coach . .David Duggan Assistant Coach Matt Kerr . .9 Duggan’s Email . [email protected] : WakeForestSports.com. Photographers may shoot Assistant Coach Amber Larsen . .9 Duggan’s Phone . .336-758-4872 from the roof of the press box, or Assistant Coach John Williams . .9 Volunteer Assistant Coaches . .Mike Bennett CREDENTIALS down on the track, so long as their Volunteer Assistant Coaches . .10 . .Chris Boyles Photographers and mem- presence does not hinder the com- . .Brian Clymer bers of the media who wish to pletion of the race in any way. THE 2007 DEMON DEACONS . .Chris Helwick cover a Wake Forest track & field . .Lela Nelson Men’s Team . .10-18 meet at Kentner Stadium should FINDING KENTNER STADIUM Women’s Team . .19-25 Track & Field Fax . .336-758-4565 Track & Field Mailing Address . .P.O. Box 7346 contact the WFU Media Relations Kentner Stadium is located Office in advance at (336) 758- in the center of Wake Forest WAKE FOREST TRACK AND FIELD HISTORY . .Winston-Salem, NC 27109 Early History . .26 Track & Field Facility . .Kentner Stadium 5640 to be placed on the media University campus just southeast Kentner Stadium . .27 gate list. Statistics and notes will of the stoplight intersection on UNIVERSITY INFORMATION be made available to the media campus. Location . .Winston-Salem, N.C. prior to each meet in the Kentner THE RECORD BOOK Founded . .1834 2007/08 Indoor Results/Honors . .28 Enrollment . .4,412 Stadium press box. FROM BUSINESS 40 2007 Outdoor Results/Honors . .29 School Colors . .Old Gold & Black In downtown Winston- Men’s All-Time Performance List . .30-31 Conference . .Atlantic Coast PLAYER/COACH INTERVIEWS Salem, take the Cherry St. exit and Women’s All-Time Performance List . .32-33 President . .Dr. Nathan O. Hatch All interviews with Demon go right at the top of the ramp. Olympians and Team USA Members . .34 Athletic Director . .Ron Wellman Deacon players should be arranged Proceed north through the down- All-Time Records . .35 through the Media Relations town. Men’s Record Book . .36-37 MEDIA RELATIONS Office. Please allow 24 hours for Cherry St. becomes Women’s Record Book . .38-39 Assistant AD, Media Relations . .Steve Shutt Demon Deacon Athletics . .40 Associate Director . .TBA requests to be arranged. No inter- University Pkwy. Continue north for Assistant Director . .Scott Wortman views will be scheduled prior to 2.5 miles. You will pass Lawrence ADMINISTRATION Assistant Director . .TBA meets on meet days. Joel Coliseum on your right. One President Nathan O. Hatch . .41 Track & Field Contact . .Katy Hamlett Head Coaches Annie mile ahead, the road will split. Hamlett Phone (o) . .336-758-4120 Athletics Director Ron Wellman . .42 Bennett and Scott Hall may be Bear left to stay on University Hamlett Phone (c) . .615-414-7493 Track and Field Support Staff . .43 Hamlett E-mail . [email protected] contacted directly in their offices. Pkwy. About 1/2 mile ahead, turn Deacon Club . .44 Fax . .336-758-5140 The best time to reach the Deacon left into the Wake Forest University Media Relations Mailing Address . .P.O. Box 7426 coaching staff is from 10 am to 1 campus. .Winston-Salem, NC 27109 pm Monday through Friday. Take a left at the stoplight on Overnight Address . .310 Miller Center campus, you’ll pass Reynolds . .1834 Wake Forest Road COVERING A MEET Gymnasium on your right and you’ll . .Winston-Salem, NC 27109 Post-meet interviews will be see Kentner Stadium just behind Website . .www.WakeForestSports.com held on the Kentner Stadium field Reynolds Gym and the Manchester shortly after the meet ends. Please Athletic Center. GUIDE CREDITS notify a member of the WFU The 2008 Wake Forest University Track and Field Guide is a Media Relations staff of any product of the Wake Forest Media Relations Department. requests. The writing, design portions and covers were done by media Post-meet summaries will relations assistant Katy Hamlett. Photography by Ken Bennett, Bob Hebert and University archives. Special thanks be available at the Wake Forest to media relations student assistants Christie Upton and Media Relations Office shortly Wilder Harte. after the end of the meet. Access to work space, telephones and a fax machine will be made available and a member of the Wake Forest Media Relations staff will carry out any fax requests you may have. WFU ATHLETICS COMPLIANCE OFFICE As a member of the ACC and NCAA, Wake Forest University is committed and obligated to the principle of institutional control and will maintain all aspects of its intercollegiate athletics program in full accordance with all University, ACC and NCAA rules. The Wake Forest University Athletics Compliance Office is the entity within the Athletics Department responsible to coordinate, administer, monitor and verify the accurate and timely completion of NCAA-required procedures and to assist in maintaining institutional compliance with all NCAA, ACC and University rules, as well as to investigate any poten- tial, and report all, violations of those rules. In addition, the Athletics Compliance Office provides educational programming and interpretive support to ensure that all individuals involved with the athletics program fully understand the University’s compliance expectations. All facets of the Athletics Compliance Office are overseen and directed by the Assistant Athletics Director for Compliance. All questions regarding NCAA rules should be directed to Todd Hairston, Assistant Athletics Director for Compliance at 336-758-4620. www.WakeForestSports.com 1 WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY Location Winston-Salem, NC Founded 1834 Wake Forest, NC President Nathan O. Hatch, AB, AM, PHD Status Private, coeducational, liberal arts Motto “Pro Humanitate” (for humanity) Team Nickname Demon Deacons Athletic Conference Atlantic Coast Fight Song “O Here’s To Wake Forest.” Alma Mater “Dear Old Wake Forest.” ake Forest University is one of the nation’s premier School of Arts and Sciences, private liberal arts universities, but the Wake Forest the School of Law, the School Colors Wexperience distinguishes itself from others in many Babcock Graduate School of Old Gold and Black ways. Wake Forest offers students the opportunity to discover Management and the not only who they are, but also who they can become. Through Divinity School. The Undergraduate Tuition lessons learned in classrooms and labs, but also from the world Bowman Gray Campus is (2008-09) around them, Wake Forest students are challenged intellectu- home to the Wake Forest $36,560 ally and spiritually to become better students, and to become University School of better persons. Medicine. Enrollment Wake Forest is best described as a small school with the While much of (2007-08) academic resources of a large school. It is recognized for out- their learning takes Undergraduate: 4,412 standing teacher-scholars for whom teaching and research are place on campus, many Graduate & professional, and priorities; libraries with comprehensive collections of print and students make the Allied Health: 2,280 electronic material; technology that includes a laptop comput- world their classroom; Total: 6,778 er for every student; and an intimate educational environment about 50 percent of students have stud- of small classes and teacher-student interaction. ied abroad by the time they graduate. Many study at the In-state/out-of state A leader among American educational institutions, Wake University’s international residential centers: Flow House in 29%/71% Forest has annually received recognition from U.S. News & Vienna, Casa Artom in Venice, and Worrell House in London. World Report as one of the top schools in the nation. Barron’s Others participate in programs in Africa, Mexico, Cuba, Japan, Undergraduate faculty Guide to the Most Competitive Schools has also ranked Wake Russia, Spain and France. (full-time) Forest among the nation’s best public and private universities In April 2004, President Thomas K. Hearn Jr., announced 395 in the South. that he would retire in June 2005 after more than twenty years Wake Forest has an undergraduate enrollment of approx- as the institution’s twelfth president. In July 2005, Hearn was Academic majors imately 4,000. It is one of just a few remaining private schools succeeded by Dr. Nathan O. Hatch, the former provost at the 37 to offer a need-blind admissions program, in which qualified University of Notre Dame. students are accepted without regard to their financial need. A In May 2004, alumna and Professor of Psychology Library holdings caring community, big-time athletic programs, and supportive Deborah Best was named the new Dean of Wake Forest 1.5 million volumes alumni networks contribute to Wake Forest’s reputation as one College.