2008 WAKE FOREST CROSS COUNTRY TABLE OF CONTENTS COACHING STAFF MEDIA RELATIONS Quick Facts . .1 Head Coach. .Annie Bennett Cross Country Contact. Lynn Enterline 2008 Schedule . .1 Years at Wake Forest . 10th Enterline’s E-mail. [email protected] 2007 Results. .1 Phone . .336-758-4871 Phone . .336-758-3229 Wake Forest University . 2-3 E-mail . [email protected] Fax . .336-758-5140 Wake Forest Athletics. .4 Assistant Coach . Amber Larsen Mailing Address . Media Relations Office The Atlantic Coast Conference . .5 Phone . .336-758-3872 . .PO Box 7426 The City of Winston-Salem . .6 E-mail . [email protected] . Winston-Salem, NC 27109 2008 Team Photos . .7 Assistant Coach . David Duggan Overnight Address. Media Relations Office Head Coach Annie Bennett . .8 Phone . .336-758-4872 . 1834 Wake Forest Road Assistant Coach Amber Larsen . .9 E-mail . [email protected] . .310 Miller Center, Suite 310 Assistant Coach David Duggan . .9 QUICK FACTS . Winston-Salem, NC 27109 Athletic Trainer Anne Bradley . .9 School. .Wake Forest University Website . WakeForestSports.com Roster Breakdown by State. .9 Location . Winston-Salem, N.C. Asst. AD/Media Relations . .Steve Shutt Cindy Adams. .10 Founded . 1834 in Wake Forest, N.C. Assistant Director . .Scott Wortman Cate Berenato . .10 Enrollment. 4,412 (undergraduate) Assistant Director . .Katy Hamlett Molly Binder . .10 Nickname . Demon Deacons Assistant Director . .Chad Crunk Stephanie Bohannon . .10 School Colors . Old Gold and Black Administrative Assistant . Emily Richey Chelsea Bolton . .10 Fight Song. “O Here’s to Wake Forest” Media Relations Assistant. Gary Petit Marley Burns. .10 Conference . .Atlantic Coast CREDITS Suzie Clinchy . .11 President. Dr. Nathan O. Hatch The 2008 Wake Forest cross country media Caitlin Crawford. .11 Athletic Director . Ron Wellman guide is a publication of the WFU Athletic Whitney Curry . .11 Senior Assoc. AD/SWA. .Barbara Walker Media Relations Department. Written and Casey Fowler. .11 designed by Lynn Enterline. Mary Alice Howard . .11 2008 SCHEDULE Cover design by Summit Ath- Ellen Huber . .12 Date Race Location letics. Editorial assistance by Allie Kieffer . .12 Aug. 29 Wake Forest Relays Winston-Salem, N.C. Scott Wortman, Chad Crunk, Hannah McArdle . .12 Katy Hamlett, Gary Petit, Anna Nosenko. .12 Sept. 13 UNC Invitational Chapel Hill, N.C. Sept. 19 Virginia Tech Invitational Blacksburg, Va. Emily Richey and Steve Shutt. Dina Nosenko . .12 Photography by Ken Bennett, Merry Placer . .12 Sept. 27 UNC Asheville Invitational Asheville, N.C. Oct. 3 Lehigh Invitational Bethlehem, Pa. Brian Westerholt and the Kelly Polisin . .13 WFU Archives. Laura Rapp . .13 Oct. 4 Bill Dellinger Invitational (w) Eugene, Ore. Oct. 17 Penn State Invitational University Park, Pa. ON THE COVER Cristina Richard . .13 Nov. 1 ACC Championships Chapel Hill, N.C. Front (L-R): Katherine Sinacore . .13 Jeremy Fisico, Kim Vos. .13 Nov. 15 NCAA Southeast Regionals Winston-Salem, N.C. Allie Kieffer, Keaton Morgan, Nov. 24 NCAA Championships Terre Haute, Ind. 2008 Men’s and Women’s Rosters . .13 Merry Placer. w - denotes women’s team only Back (L-R): Greg Billington. .14 Marcus Dillon, Nick Deuschle . .14 Kim Vos, Whitney Curry. Marcus Dillon . .14 2007 RESULTS Jeremy Fisico . .14 Date Race Location Men Women Zach Hines . .14 Matt King . .14 Aug. 31 Wake Forest Relays Winston-Salem, N.C. 2nd of 5 1st of 5 Nicholas Lepley . .15 Sept. 8 Lou Onesty Invitatonal Charlottesville, Va. 10th of 10 6th of 8 Paul Loeser . .15 Sept. 14 Raleigh Invitational Cary, N.C. 2nd of 11 -- Keaton Morgan . .15 Sept. 14 Boston College Invitational Boston, Mass. -- 4th of 10 Tom Morrison . .15 Sept. 29 Greater Louisville Classic Louisville, Ky. 6th of 36 -- Ben Morrow . .15 Sept. 29 Bill Dellinger Invitational Springfield, Ore. -- 8th of 14 Mark Russell . .15 Oct. 12 Penn State Invitational University Park, Pa. 10th of 20 5th of 25 All-Time Results and Award Winners . .16 Oct. 27 ACC Championships Charlottesville, Va. 7th of 12 7th of 12 Nov. 10 NCAA Southeast Regionals Louisville, Ky. 9th of 29 8th of 31 WAKEFORESTSPORTS.COM 1 • Wake Forest University was founded in 1834 in Wake Forest, N.C. It re-located to Winston-Salem in 1956. The University offers a private, co-educational liberal aartsrts curriculum. • With an underundergraduategraduate enrollment of 4,412 students, Wake Forest is the third-smallest sschoolchool in the country to fi eld teams in Division I-A athletics and the ssmallestmallest among BCS schoolsschools.. • Wake Forest’s low student-to-facultstudent-to-facultyy ratio of 10:1 encouraencouragesges ppersonalersonal attention and onone-on-onee-on-one iinteractionnteraction bbetweenetween tteacherseachers anandd stustudents.dents. • All undergraduates receive an IBM ThinkPad laptop and a printer upon enrollment. ThThee ccomputersomputers are uupgradedpgraded after two yyearsears and become the student’s ppropertyroperty uuponpon grgraduation.aduation. • “Pro Humanitate,” fforor the good ooff humanity, is the motto ooff Wake Forest University. Students are encouraencouragedged to use their knowledknowledgege in service to others and most pparticipatearticipate iinn some kind of volunteer activitactivityy durinduringg their time here. • Wake Forest hosted presidential debates in 1988 and 2000, when GGeorgeeorge W. Bush debated then-Vice President Al GGoreore in Wait CChapel.hapel. • Recent commencement sspeakerspeakers have included Arnold Palmer, Colin Powell, BBarbaraarbara Bush and New York CCityity Mayor Michael Bloomberg. 2 2008 WAKE FOREST CROSS COUNTRY WAKEFORESTSPORTS.COM 3 WAKE FOREST’SFOREST’S NNATIONALATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPSCHAMPIONSHIPS Men’s SoccerSoccer 20072007 Field HockeHockeyy 20020044 Field HockeHockeyy 20020033 Field HockeHockeyy 20020022 Men’s GGolfolf 19819866 Men’s GGolfolf 19719755 MMen’sen’s GoGolflf 11974974 BaBaseballseball 11955955 NOTABLENOTABLE ATHLETIATHLETICSCS ALUMNI • WakeWake ForestForest boastsboasts 18 menmen’s’s andand women’swomen’s iintercollegiatentercollegiate athleticathletic teams comcombined.bined. Ernie Accorsi (football)(football) Laura Diaz ((golf)golf) Tim Duncan ((basketball)basketball) • The Demon Deacons compete in the Atlantic CoastCoast CConference,onference, a 12-member league Josh Howard ((basketball)basketball) stretching ffromrom Massachusetts to Florida. BillBillyy Packer ((basketball)basketball) Arnold Palmer ((golf)golf) Chris Paul ((basketball)basketball) • Wake Forest fi nished 23rd in the nation in the 2006-07 NACDA Director’s CupCup standings,standings, Brian Piccolo (f(football)ootball) Curtis Strangegg (golf) the highesthighest fi nish in Deacon history.history. The Director’s CupCup measures an athletic dedepartment’spartment’s LannLannyyyg Wadkins ((golf)golf) success across tthehe bboardoard iinn up to 20 sports. Pat Williams ((basketball)basketball) MEN’SMEN’S SSPORTSPORTS Baseball • Basketball • Cross CountryCountry • Football • GolfGolf • SSocceroccer • Tennis • TraTrackck & FielFieldd WOMEN’S SPORTS Basketball • Cross CountryCountry • Field HockeyHockey • Golf • SSocceroccer • Tennis • Track & Field • VolleVolleyballyball 4 2008 WAKE FOREST CROSS COUNTRY THETHE TRADITION THETHE CHAMPIONSHIPSCHAMPIONSHIPS conferenceconference appeared in the region’s newspapers prior to Consistency.Consistency. It is the mark ofof true excellence in anyany The conferenceconference will conduct championshipchampionship thethe meeting in Raleigh. Some of the names suggested endeavor.endeavor. competitioncompetition in 25 sportssports duringduring the 2008-09 academic were:were: Dixie, Mid South, Mid Atlantic, East Coast, However, in today’s intercollegiate athletics, year - 12 forfor men and 13 forfor women. Seaboard, Colonial, Tobacco, Blue-Gray,Blue-Gray, Piedmont, competition has become so balanced and so competitive The 12 sports forfor men include football,football, cross country, SouthernSouthern SeSevenven andand ththee Shoreline.Shoreline. that it is virtually impossible to maintain a high level ofof soccer, basketball, swimming, indoor and outdoor track, Duke’s Eddie CameronCameron rerecommendedcommended that the namename consistency.consistency. wrestling, baseball, tennis, golf and lacrosse. of the conferenceconference be the Atlantic CCoastoast Conference,Conference, and Yet the Atlantic Coast Conference has defi ed thethe ChampionshipsChampionships for women are currently conducted in thethe motion was passed unanimously. odds. Now in its 56th yearyear of competition,competition, the ACC cross country,country, fi eld hockey,hockey, soccer, basketball, swimming,swimming, OnOn December 4, 1953, conferenceconference offioffi cials met again hashas long enenjoyedjoyed the reputation as one of the strongeststrongest indoorindoor and outdoor track, tennis, golf,golf, lacrosse, softballsoftball atat SedgefiSedgefi eld and offi cially admitted the University of and most competitivecompetitive intercollegiateintercollegiate conferencesconferences in the andand rowing,rowing, whilewhile volleyballvolleyball ddeterminesetermines iitsts championchampion inin Virginia as the league’s eighth member. The fi rst, and nation.nation. And that is not mere conjecture,conjecture, the numbers regularregular season play.play. only,only, withdrawal of a school from the ACC came on June support it. 30, 1971, when the UniversityUniversity of South Carolina tendered SinceSince the league’s inception in 1953, ACC schools A HISTORYHISTORY itsits resignation.resignation. havehave captured 108 national championships, including The ACCACC operatedoperated with seven members until