WINGATE FOOTBALL 2014 Wingate University Football Schedule Inside Wingate University Football DATE OPPONENT TIME SITE South Atlantic Conference 3 Sep 6 at Limestone 1 p.m. Gaffney, S.C. 2014 Season Outlook 4-5 Sept 13 *at Saint Augustine’s 1:30 p.m. Raleigh, N.C. Player Profiles 6-20 Sept 20 *LENOIR-RHYNE 1:30 p.m. WINGATE Special Olympics 20 (Lettermen’s Day/Patriots’ Day) 2014 Team Picture 21 Sept 27 UNC PEMBROKE 1:30 p.m. WINGATE Head Coach Joe Reich 22-23 (Family Weekend) Coaching Staff 24-30 Oct 4 *at Newberry 6 p.m. Newberry, S.C. 2013 Game Summaries 32-33 Oct 11 *CATAWBA 1:30 p.m. WINGATE SAC Scholar Athletes 33 (Church Youth Day) Athletic Department 38 Oct 18 *at Brevard 4:15 p.m. Brevard, N.C. 2013 Statistics 39 Oct 25 *TUSCULUM 1:30 p.m. WINGATE Academic All-America® 40 (Homecoming) Athletic Excellence Award 42 Nov 1 *at North Greeneville 2 p.m. Tigerville, S.C. Bulldog Club 49 & 71 Nov 8 *MARS HILL 1:30 p.m. WINGATE Bulldog Helping Hands 50-51 (Senior Day/Hall of Fame/Tailgating for the Troops) Honors and Awards 54 Nov 15 *at Carson-Newman 1 p.m. Jefferson City,Tenn. Year-by-Year Leaders 59 Endowed Scholarships 62-63 *Denotes South Atlantic Conference games Advertisement Directory 71 HOME GAMES BOLD TYPE,ALL CAPS Wingate University 72 (All times listed are Eastern times; Dates and times are subject to change without notice.) The 2014 Game-Day Program was designed and edited by For more info on Bulldog athletics, visit the Wingate University website at Assistant SID Hugh Patton, with the assistance of David www.wingatebulldogs.com Sherwood.Ad sales by Wayne Shadrick. Cover designed by Ryan Brown. Printing by Total Graphics. WINGATE UNIVERSITY Brown will team with Wingate Athletics Director SPORTS NETWORK of Advertising and Sales Wayne Shadrick to broadcast the road football games during the 2014 The Wingate University Sports Network will season. Wingate University 2014 graduate Josh partner with Stretch Internet for Internet video Williams will be the color commentator for home broadcasts during the 2014-15 academic year. The contests. Network will cover football, volleyball, soccer, basketball, baseball, softball, swimming and The football pre-game show will begin 45 minutes lacrosse during the 2014-15 academic year. All prior to kick-off. events will be streamed in HD and will be free. Watch the Wingate University sports web site for Last year, the Wingate University Sports Network more details about upcoming broadcasts. The produced over 115 broadcasts, which included live Wingate sports web site can be accessed at video streams at more than 75 events. The first free www.wingatebulldogs.com. HD video broadcast was done in March of 2013. The Network will broadcast at least five women's soccer matches, five men's soccer matches and 11 volleyball matches during the fall. Wingate director of broadcasting Ryan Brown (class of 2006) will provide the play-by-play for all football broadcasts and many of the other events. Graduate Assistant Broadcaster Jake Levy will also provide play-by-play of Ryan Brown Wayne Shadrick several events. www.wingatebulldogs.com 1 WINGATE UNIVERSITY 2 www.wingatebulldogs.com SOUTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE www.wingatebulldogs.com 3 2014 SEASON OUTLOOK The Wingate University football team returns 90 letter between Ja'Shawn Joyner, David Stadler, B.J. Beecher winners for the 2014 season. Bulldog head coach Joe Reich and Logan Bradley. Competition is good…I look forward to sat down with the Wingate Sports Information department to watching how we develop at this position. share his thoughts about the upcoming campaign. A transcript of the interview follows… Running back Mycah Gaylord and Nestor Lantigua are a good combination Strengths for us. Blake Hayes is a transfer from Hampton…a big back Our wide receiving corps returns intact from 2013 with the who can thump the ball up the middle. Lawrence Pittman addition of Bryan Caffrey (who missed the 2013 season). In made some nice runs for a very good Mallard Creek (High addition, our backfield skill guys return as a unit with Nestor School) team. Both Pittman and Devin Towns are going to Lantigua and Mycah Gaylord. We feel good about our help us. perimeter attack when you include tight end Brandon Ellington with the wide receivers. We feel we have good Cody Cothren returns with experience at the fullback group of younger guys at running back. The coaching staff position. He gives us an Andrew Nallenweg-type feels we are loaded in this area. back…which is very important for our offense. Delwin Clark is the prototypical fullback. We look for Delwin to play a On defense, our front seven has a chance to be exceptional prominent role. in 2014. They are unheralded, but very talented. Last year, we were able to bolster our experience in the linebacker Wide receiver corps as Zack Singleton and Mackenzie Battle saw Jordan Berry had an All-SAC season as a true freshman. significant minutes. Charlie Hosea joins this group with The return of Bryan Caffrey will be a big help, as he brings a much time under his belt. We went from a little thin (in 2013) different skill set to the table. Hunter Haffly and Patrick to a chance to be pretty special (in 2014). Derenda will see time as well. Overall, the coaching staff believes we are deeper this year At the Z position, Jiwan Funderburk is ready for a break-out than we have been the last few years. On the offensive line, season. Joe Wallace can do many good things. In the slot, we have five very good starters. We have spent the pre- Tim Nalesnik is very reliable. He will be in the mix. We season developing back-ups with a talented group of believe Jalen Gavin will see time…he had a great pre- transfers and freshmen. In particular, we believe Ian Fabian season camp. and Jacob Beachum had good pre-season camps. We have so many options at wide receiver. Grant Stafford Challenges for the offense will see action behind Jordan Berry. Stafford is going to be a We must establish a good running game and protect our great special teams' guy for us. Trevor Zaruba is tall and quarterbacks. We have the personnel in the backfield to be rangy; he will provide support behind Caffrey and Haffly. successful. We must get them involved and get them into the flow of the offense. (Quarterback) Kyle Johnson is a very Tight end good football player for us. We must give him all the help we Brandon Ellington had a good camp. His physical play will be can…so the load is not on him and him alone. very important for us. He is a great leader…who brings many things to the table. Jake Jensen is a solid, young tight Challenges for the defense end…who will continue to improve as he grows into our We must find the right combination for depth in the system. We have moved J.D. Kenion to tight end…this helps secondary…how we play them every week will be very us enormously. important. There are a multitude of offenses in the South Atlantic Conference. I don't envy Rashaan Jordan's job as Offensive line defensive coordinator. He has many schemes he must know Will Poteat and Mathu Gibson will man the tackle inside-and-out. We are focusing on our improvement as a positions…they are the total package. We have many folks defense…this is the main thing for us above anything else. who will contribute on the offensive line, including Daniel Looking at the Bulldogs position-by-position Owens, Cabell Cantrell, Brandon Hurt and Tyler Davis…we've spent pre-season camp looking for the right Quarterback combination. Newcomers Orlando Colon, Jacob Beachum In spring practice, Kyle Johnson became our guy. He had a and Ian Fabian will contribute and provide much-needed great spring, summer and pre-season. He is a solid leader in depth. our program, as evidenced by his election as one of five team captains. Behind him, we have healthy competition 4 www.wingatebulldogs.com 2014 SEASON OUTLOOK Defensive line It is phenomenal for our program to have the chance to share We believe Nick Napolitano and Steven Jacobs at the this space. We see no issues with the fact we play five of our defensive end positions…is one of the strengths of our team. six away games on AstroTurf. Andre Foulks and Dillon Tucker will provide depth at defensive end and see quality time for us this year. On first opponent Limestone (with five former Wingate Preseason SACPoll Team Points (1st place) At defensive tackle, the coaching staff feels Auntrell Mack coaches on staff): I think this 1. Carson Newman 46 (4) and Josh Mills both had good pre-season camps. We feel is going to be an interesting 2. Lenoir-Rhyne 45 (4) 3. Newberry 36 good about the defensive tackle position when one factors in and fun day for us. We've 4.Wingate 31 DeMarcus Rawls and Taylor Modlin. Ryan Dilworth will talked about this (in coaches' 5. Mars Hill 25 6. Catawba 21 help us down the road. meetings)…it is similar to 7.Tusculum 13 playing a teammate in pick-up 8. Brevard 7 Linebacker basketball…one wants to win. We've worked closely with (LC We have a great bunch of linebackers. We believe these head coach) Bobby James for many years. Coach James, guys will be interchangeable as we find the right mix.