This is Catawba College ADMISSION ACADEMIC LIFE Inquiries regarding admission to Catawba College are always Catawba College is dedicat - warmly welcomed. If you are interested in joining the Catawba ed to helping students reach community, you should apply for admission anytime after your their highest potential. sixth semester of high school. Blending liberal studies with Catawba follows the usual guidelines for “rolling admissions” and, therefore, has no closing date for accepting applications. career preparation, the college Applying early will ensure an early response from the college. offers the Bachelor of Arts, In your application, you are asked to provide a wide variety of Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of information relating to your academic and co-curricular back - Fine Arts, Bachelor of Business ground. This information is used to help determine your potential Administration and Master of to profit from, as well as contribute to, the Catawba community. Education degrees. You must complete a minimum of 16 units of high school course work, 12 of which should be in academic subjects. The fol - lowing college preparatory course work is strongly recommended: four units of English; three units of mathematics (Algebra I or COLLEGE ORIENTATION above); three units of Laboratory Science; three units of Social Science; and two units of foreign language. Catawba officials want to do everything they can to help new Your admission to Catawba also will be evaluated by class students succeed, and that means more than making good grades. rank, grade point average, SAT or ACT examination scores, and It means adjusting well. It means learning to live and work with academic course selection. others in an environ - Arrangements for visits to the Catawba campus may be made ment that is new. by calling 1-800-CATAWBA, or by writing the Office of To ease the transi - Admissions, Catawba College, 2300 W. Innes Street, Salisbury, NC, tion to college life, 28144. Catawba offers an The coaches are available by writing the Athletic Department orientation session or by telephone: before the opening of the fall term for all Baseball (M) . Jim Gantt . .704-637-4469 first-time freshmen Basketball (M) . Jim Baker . .704-637-4473 and transfer students. Basketball (W) . Angie Morton . .704-637-4471 One of the pri - Cross Country (M&W) . Bill Haggerty . .704-637-4473 mary strengths of the Football (M) . Chip Hester . .704-637-4424 program is that students Golf (M&W) . Sam Gealy . .704-637-4236 have contact with an Lacrosse (M) . Peter Bourque . .704-637-4485 advisor from the first day Lacrosse (W) . Jordan Clodfelter . .704-637-4408 they arrive on campus. Soccer (M) . Liam Farrell . .704-637-4348 And that relationship Soccer (W) . Michael Swan . .704-637-4324 continues in small, twice- Softball (M&W) . Nan Whitley . .704-637-4359 weekly classes during the Swimming (M&W) . Betsy Graham . .704-637-4672 entire first semester. Tennis (M&W) . Jeff Childress . .704-637-4265 Volleyball (W) . Ginger Hamric . .704-637-4480 SOUTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE Catawba Quick Facts The South Atlantic Conference is a group of ten church-related colleges of similar size and athletic Location ................................................................... Salisbury, NC 28144 philosophy. As an all-sports conference, the league Admissions Office Telephone ....................................... 1-800-228-2922 has grown into one of the premier small-college Home facility ................................................................. Goodman Gym athletic conference in the nation. The 1993-94 year was extremely special in that Colors .............................................................................. Blue and White the conference became fully affiliated with the NCAA Division II Nickname ......................................................................Catawba Indians and is now eligible for national championships opportunities in all Enrollment ......................................................................................... 1,200 of its 14 sponsored sports. Founded ............................................................................................. 1851 Church Affiliation .......................................... United Church of Christ Athletic Affiliation ................................................................... NCAA II NCAA DIVISION II Conference ........................................................................ South Atlantic The National Collegiate Athletic Association is President ................................................................................ Brien Lewis the organization through which the nation’s colleges Athletic Director ........................................................ Dennis Davidson and universities speak and act on athletic matters at Sports Information ...................................................................Jim Lewis the national level. It is a voluntary association of more than 1,000 institutions, conferences, organiza - Sports Information Telephone .......................................... 704-637-4720 tions and individuals devoted to the sound administration of Head Athletic Trainer ......................................................... Bob Casmus intercollegiate athletics. 2012 Catawba College Volleyball Guide Front Row (L-R): Ashley Brown, Katrina Maine, Abby Pennington, Emily Richardson, Jenny Young, Jordan Raye, Alli Parrish, Anna Logan, Denise Grissom, Rachel Gallup, Kaytee Frabotta, Haley Lanier, Alex Hopper. Back Row: Savannah Tomlinson, Carson Brewer, Brinsley Stewart, Kaitlyn Whitmer, Leah Ryan. CONTENTS CREDITS Catawba Athletic This volleyball yearbook is a publica - Administration . 2 tion of the Catawba College Sports Information Office. Head Coach Ginger Hamric . 3 EDITOR: Jim Lewis, Sports Information Director. Profiles . 4-6 WRITTEN BY: Jim Lewis Roster . 7 PHOTOGRAPHY: Jim Lewis and Statistics . 8 Chuck Williams. Record Book . 9 - 1 - Administration BRIEN LEWIS DENNIS DAVIDSON President Athletic Director Brien Lewis became the President of Dennis Davidson has been director of ath - Catawba College in April 2012. He comes to letics since May of 1996. He came to Catawba Catawba after serving as Vice President for College in July 1984 as director of public University Development and Alumni Relations information and moved totally into sports at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC. Lewis information one year later. and his wife Laura are parents of two teenage In 1991, Davidson was promoted to assis - children, Josh and Anna Louise. tant to the athletic director, and in 1993, he Lewis joined the administration of was promoted to assistant athletic director for Winthrop University in 1999 as Executive Assistant to the President and game operations, in addition to the sports information duties. Secretary to the Board of Trustees. He also served as the founding Dean Davidson oversees the entire athletic program at Catawba. He has of Winthrop’s University College between 2003 and 2007 and taught, as also been responsible for securing athletic advertising and sponsor - an Assistant Professor and then as an Associate Professor of Business ships and has had significant roles in Catawba’s Sports Hall of Fame Administration. inductions, the South Atlantic Conference Spring Sports Festival and Before his time at Winthrop, Lewis, who earned his law degree from the year-end athletic ceremony. He is a member of the National the University of Toronto, was a practicing attorney with Wishart, Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) and is a mem - Norris, Henninger & Pittman of Burlington between 1994 and 1999. ber of the regional advisory committee for NCAA Division II football. From 1998 until 1999, he was a Certified Superior Court Mediator for Davidson is the immediate past chairman of the South Atlantic the same firm. Conference Athletics Directors Council and is currently the SAC AD liai - A Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel son for baseball. He has also served in that capacity for women’s vol - Hill, Lewis received a full academic scholarship based on academic leyball, women’s basketball and athletic training. achievement, leadership and moral force of character. Between 1989 Davidson was also highly involved in the planning of the Hayes and 1990, he was UNC Chapel Hill's Student Body President, elected by Field House and Shuford Stadium reconstruction. He also directed the a student body of 23,000. As a Canadian, he was the first international highly popular Sam Moir Christmas Basketball Classic (1996-2011). student to hold that office. A former member of the College Sports Information Directors of Lewis is currently leading the campus through a strategic planning America (CoSIDA), Davidson was chairman of the NAIA District 26 process that will assess issues ranging from a campus master plan for SIDs and the Carolinas Conference Awards Committee for three years facilities to student success initiatives to marketing and branding of the (1986-89). He was voted by his peers as District 26 SID of the Year for institution. He says he is inspired and energized by Catawba’s core val - 1987-88 and 1992-93. ues as emblazoned on the college seal – scholarship, character, culture Born in Statesville, but reared in Salisbury, Davidson graduated in and service – and by the college’s mission to “prepare students to reach 1977 from West Rowan High School, where he was a four-year letter - their full potential.” man in baseball, earning