GROVE CITY COLLEGE QUICK FACTS Institution ____ Grove City College TABLE OF CONTENTS Location __________ Grove City, Pa. Founded___________________ 1876 Grove City College Coaching Staff 3 Enrollment _________________ 2,500 2007-08 Preseason Roster 4 Colors ________ Crimson and White 2007-08 Schedule 4 Nickname ____________ Wolverines Affiliation _______ NCAA Division III 2007-08 Season Preview 5 Conference ___ Presidents’ Athletic Returning Letterwinners Pool _____ Grove City College Pool Built _______________________ 1990 Richard Albertson (Berwick, Pa.) 6 President ______ Richard Jewell, J.D. Nick Barker (Centreville, Md.) 6 Alma Mater _____ Grove City, 1967 Athletic Director _____ Dr. Don Lyle Nate Brunk (Wyncote, Pa.) 6 Alma Mater ____ Muskingum, 1971 Albert Cheung (Camp Hill, Pa.) 6 Associate A.D. _____Susan Roberts Caleb Courage (Shippensburg, Pa.) 7 Alma Mater ___________ Ohio, 1975 Associate A.D. ________ Joe Walters Chip Cressman (Marriottsville, Md.) 7 Alma Mater _ Slippery Rock, 1968 Kyle Grubbs (Stow, Ohio) 7 Head Coach ___________ Dave Fritz Alma Mater _____ Grove City, 1994 Jeremy Harbaugh (South Park, Pa.) 8 Career Record ___ 42-13 (6th Year) Caleb Kramer (Ankeny, Iowa) 8 At Grove City ______________ Same First Year of Program _______ 1937 Lincoln Larsen (Federal Way, Wash.) 8 All-TIme Record _______ 507-221-1 Peter Larsen (Federal Way, Wash.) 8 Head Trainer __ Kay Mitchell Emigh Assistant Trainer _____ Rick Hawke Ben Leach (Damascus, Md.) 8 Athletic Office Mgr _______ Kim Iliff Tyler May (Pittsburgh, Pa.) 9 Aquatics Director ___ Cathy Jacobs ACTS Joe Riddell (Osny, France) 9 Equipment Mgr ____ Larry Freeman F Equipment Mgr ___ Jim Richardson Drew Snyder (Harmony, Pa.) 9 CONTACT I NFORMATION Tim Whitbeck (Saegertown, Pa.) 9 UICK 2006-07 Season Review 10 Q Head Coach Dave Fritz Office Telephone __ 724-458-2110 Program History 11 Best Time to Call ________ Mornings All-Time Series 12 E-mail ____________ [email protected] ••• All-Time All-Americans 13 Sports Info. Director Ryan Briggs About the Presidents’ Athletic Conference 14 Office Telephone __ 724-458-3365 Office Fax ________ 724-458-3855 Presidents’ Athletic Conference Records 15 Home Telephone _ 724-748-3718 Grove City College Pool Records 15 E-mail __________ [email protected] ••• All-Time Top 10 Times 16-17 Grove City Athletic Department NCAA Division III Qualifying Standards 17 Dept. Telephone __ 724-458-2900 About Grove City College 18 Dept. Fax _________ 724-458-3855 Web Site__ www2.gcc.edu/sports The Grove City College Pool 19 CREDITS Editor ____________ Ryan Briggs, SID Head shots by Bob Gregg/Gregg Studio, Grove City, Pa. Cover photos by Gregg Studio and Dave Miller/ADM Photography, Darlington, Pa. Printing by Sharon Commercial Printing, Sharon, Pa. 2 MEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING 2007-2008 HHEAD CCOACH DDAVE FFRITZ A 1994 Grove City College graduate, Dave Fritz is in his sixth season as Grove City College’s head men’s swimming and diving coach. Under his direction, Grove City has returned to the national spotlight as one of the nation’s premier small-college pro- grams. In 2006-07, two Grove City swimmers earned NCAA Division III championships as Tim Whitbeck won the national title in the 50 free and Caleb Courage repeated as national champion in the 100 free. Their efforts helped Grove City place ninth nation- ally at the NCAA Championships, the program’s best-ever finish at the Division III Cham- pionships. A total of seven Grove City swimmers have earned NCAA All-America honors during his tenure as head coach. In 2006, Courage became Grove City’s first men’s swimmer to earn a national title. Grove City placed 13th as a team at the NCAA Championships that season. Fritz has guided Grove City to a 42-13 overall dual-meet record, including a College- record 15 victories during the 2006-07 season. In 2006-07, Grove City posted victories over eventual NCAA Division III champion Kenyon, perennial power Case Western Reserve, NCAA Division I institution Butler and archrival Westminster. In his second season as head coach, 2003-04, Fritz guided Grove City to the Presidents’ Athletic Conference championship, along with a 6-3 dual-meet record. He has helped Grove City extend its streak of consecutive winning seasons to 56. Fritz returned to his alma mater after seven successful seasons as the head boys swimming and diving coach at Chartiers Valley High School in Bridgeville, Pa., a suburb of Pittsburgh. In that time, Fritz compiled a 67-24-1 (.734) C record as the Colts’ head coach and also won a pair of section titles. He also coached 29 swimmers who qualified OACHING for the state championships. Fritz is a member of the American Swim Coaches Association and has served as a collegiate and scholastic water polo official. Fritz is also head coach of Grove City’s women’s water polo squads. In the spring of 2002, Fritz directed the women’s team to a 7-11 mark after taking over on an interim basis. In 2007, Fritz led the women’s water polo team S to a program-record 18 victories and a fifth-place finish at the Collegiate III National Championships. Four Grove TAFF City players have earned All-America honors under his guidance. He owns master’s degrees from both Duquesne University and Slippery Rock University. Fritz lives in Slippery Rock with his wife Tammy, daughters Emily and Mary, and son Hayden. DDIVING CCOACH TTAMMY FFRITZ Tammy Fritz is in her fifth season as the diving coach at Grove City College. Grove City’s diving corps has ascended to its place among the region’s elite under Fritz’s guidance. In 2007, Fritz helped junior Joe Riddell provisionally qualify for the NCAA Division III Championships. Riddell and freshman Kyle Grubbs placed 1-2 in both diving events at the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Championships. Two years earlier, she helped guide five Grove City divers to top-five finishes at the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Championships, including two-time women’s 3-meter champion Emily Hays. Prior to joining the Grove City staff, Fritz worked as the diving coach at Chartiers Valley High School in Bridgeville, Pa. for two seasons. Fritz also has 14 years of experience coaching gymnastics at various age levels. She has guided numerous athletes to state championships. Fritz is in her fifth year as an English teacher at Grove City High School. She also taught English for eight years at Chartiers Valley. Fritz graduated from Washington and Jefferson in 1992. In July 2002, she completed her master’s degree in education from Duquesne University. She lives in nearby Slippery Rock with her husband, Dave, daughters Emily and Mary and son Hayden. 3 GROVE CITY COLLEGE PPRESEASON RROSTER Name Yr. Events Hometown High School Richard Albertson So Fly/Distance Berwick, Pa. Berwick Matt Armstrong Fr. Free Loudonville, Ohio Loudonville Andrew Ashleigh So. Breast/Free Rutledge, Pa. Strath Haven Jared Bailey Fr. Free/Fly/Back Portsmouth, R.I. Aquidneck Island Nick Barker Sr. Fly Centreville, Md. Queen Anne’s County Nathan Brunk Jr. Fly Wyncote, Pa. Cheltenham Albert Cheung Sr. Free/IM Camp Hill, Pa. Cedar Cliff Cam Coppelli Fr. Back/Breast Guys Mills, Pa. Saegertown Chip Cressman So. Distance Marriottsville, Md. Homeschooled Matt Green So. Distance Avon, N.Y. Avon Tucker Gregg So. Fly/Free Grove City, Pa. Grove City Kyle Grubbs So. Diving Stow, Ohio Stow-Munroe Falls Dan Gummel Fr. Fly Springfield, Ohio Emmanuel Christian Jeremy Harbaugh Sr. IM/Distance South Park, Pa. South Park Eliot Hawk Fr. Diving Moon Township, Pa. Moon Bennett Keefer Fr. Breast/IM Montoursville, Pa. Montoursville Caleb Kramer Jr. Distance Ankeny, Iowa Homeschooled Lincoln Larsen So. Breast Federal Way, Wash. Tacoma Baptist Peter Larsen Jr. Fly/IM Federal Way, Wash. Tacoma Baptist Ben Leach Jr. Breast Damascus, Md. Damascus Matt Leonard Fr. Back/IM Lake City, Fla. Homeschooled Chris Marasco Fr. Fly/Free Washington, Pa. Washington Tyler May Sr. Breast Pittsburgh, Pa. Woodland Hills Nate Nielsen Fr. Free/Back Houston, Texas Lutheran South Andrew Parry Fr. Back Hellertown, Pa. Saucon Valley OSTER Justin Prete Fr. Free Pittsburgh, Pa. Chartiers Valley R Joe Riddell Sr. Diving Osny, France Paul-Emil Victor Drew Snyder Jr. Free Harmony, Pa. Seneca Valley Chad Toth Jr. Free/IM Virginia Beach, Va. Norfolk Christian Arne Ulbrich So. Diving Bremen, Germany Gymnasium Vegesack Dan Wells Fr. Free/Back Ashland, Ohio Ashland RESEASON Tim Whitbeck Jr. Free Saegertown, Pa. Saegertown P Seth Zimmerman So. Free Somerset, Pa. Somerset 2007-2008 GROVE CITY MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING SCHEDULE Date Opponent H/A Time Oct. 19-20 Clarion Fall Classic A 5:00 PM Nov. 10 CARNEGIE MELLON H 1:00 PM (All-America Recognition) Nov. 16 Saint Vincent A 6:00 PM Nov. 17 GROVE CITY QUAD H 1:00 PM (Kenyon, Case Western Reserve, W&J) Nov. 20 Allegheny A 6:00 PM Nov. 30 JAMES E. LONGNECKER INV. H 6:00 PM Dec. 1 JAMES E. LONGNECKER INV. H 9:00 AM Dec. 5 BETHANY* H 6:00 PM SALEM INTERNATIONAL Dec. 8 Hiram A 1:00 PM Jan. 19 WASH. & JEFF.* H 1:00 PM (Men’s Swimming and Diving Hall of Fame Induction) Jan. 22 Westminster* A 6:00 PM Jan. 26 Denison A 1:00 PM Feb. 1 Penn State Behrend A 5:00 PM Pitt-Bradford N Feb. 2 WOOSTER H 1:00 PM (Senior Recognition) Feb. 14-16 PAC CHAMPIONSHIPS H 4 MEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING 2007-2008 SSEASON PPREVIEW With four returning NCAA All-Americans and 12 other talented lettermen back, the Grove City Col- lege men’s swimming and diving team is poised to reclaim the Presidents’ Athletic Conference cham- pionship and solidify its place among the nation’s elite Division III programs.