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Campus News
- Champions! Men's basketball team wins 2006 NCAA
Division III national championship title - VWC Student Journalists Awarded For Excellence
- Math Student To Attend Virginia Tech Undergraduate Research Workshop
- Saturday, April 8 is VWC Day!
Upcoming Events
- April 5 - April 9 - "Servant of Two Masters" by Carlo Goldoni
- April 8 - VWC Day
- April 10 - Interviewing Skills Workshop
- April 10 - April 11 - Ana Vidovic
- April 11 - May 13 - Art Majors' Senior Exhibition
- April 19 - April 27 - Undergraduate Research Symposium
- April 20 - German Kunstlieder sung by Terrence Heinze
- April 21 - College Choir Spring Showcase
- April 24 - Lovelace, Chertok and Two Steinways
- April 24 - NEXUS: Death and Beyond
- April 25 - The Wesleyan Singers
- April 26 - "An Evening on the Boardwalk": The Alumni Association's 6th Annual Auction & Party
- April 28 - Academic Fair
- April 28 - Town Mountain Bluegrass
- May 4 - Annual Student Video Screening
Features
- Caught on Camera: Dancers frozen in motion in
photography exhibit - Get in shape and create a "New U" this spring!
- Empty Bowls event aims to fill empty tummies in community
- New technology added to four classrooms: Similar to the Blocker 18 classroom, Birdsong 101, Roop 2, Blocker 102 and Blocker 211 will have projectors, computers, DVD/VCR players and audio capabilities. Blocker 102 and 211 will also share a Presenter (document camera) which can be deployed in either room. The Birdsong and Roop classrooms are the result of the VFIC technology grant and the Blocker classrooms are from the Norfolk Foundation grant.
- Join the Alumni Association for "An Evening on the Boardwalk" – the 6th Annual Auction & Party with presenting sponsor Countrywide Mortgage. Join us Wednesday, April 26 at the Virginia Beach Convention Center for this fun evening of fellowship, competitive bidding, and other festivities. There’ll be a silent and live auction, music by Sound Investment, and lots of delicious food and beverages. Register online or preview some of this year's auction items.
- With the deadline for admitted students to inform colleges of their enrollmetn plans quickly approaching, the Admissions Office invites admitted students to take a closer look at Virginia Wesleyan during an Admitted Student Day.
- Tell A Friend: Virginia Wesleyan is a great place for adult students! Bring them to an Adult Studies Program information session.
- The Annual Fund for Academic Excellence is critical to providing the very best education and experience for all Wesleyan students. The Annual Fund supports scholarships, faculty recruitment and development, technology upgrades and additions, library resources and other critical needs as they arise on campus. The Annual Fund is the margin of excellence. To view the honor roll of donors, click here. To make a gift online, please click here.
- From the Career Services Center: Learn about Job Fairs, recruiters on campus, seminars, career panels, workshops and more! The Instant.Messenger is published three times each semester. Click here to view it.
Sports Briefs
- New Volleyball Coach Hired To Fill Vacancy
- Men's Basketball - (30-3
overall; ranked No. 1 nationally) clinched the 2006 NCAA Division III men's
basketball national championship; Head Coach Dave Macedo named NABC National
Coach of the Year; junior forward Brandon Adair named 2006 NABC Player
of the Year and D3Hoops first-team All-American; finished 2006 season with
28-game winning streak -- the longest in the nation.
» Visit the 2006 championship Web page. - Baseball - (10-18 overall; 5-5 ODAC) lost to Ferrum College 3-2 at home; lost Ramapo College 14-9 at home; defeated Emory & Henry College 7-0 and 14-6 at E&H; lost to #30 Salisbury University 5-2 at SU; defeated Averett University 9-0 at home; split with Washington and Lee University 10-7 (W&L) and 14-13 (VWC) at home; lost to LaGrange College 5-4 at LGC; defeated Eastern Mennonite University 13-5 and 6-2 at home; split with Tufts University 7-1 (TU) and 8-3 (VWC) at home; lost to Methodist College 6-3 at MC; lost to Bridgewater College 16-6 and 10-9 at BC
- Softball - split with Christopher Newport University 4-1 (VWC) and 4-3 (CNU) at home; defeated Washington College 10-0 at Salisbury; defeated #17 Moravian College 5-4 at Salisbury; lost to King's College 8-4 at Salisbury; defeated York College 7-1 at Salisbury; split with Greensboro College 4-2 (VWC) and 3-1 (GC) at home; defeated Sweet Briar College 10-2 and 13-3 at home; lost to Ferrum College 4-1 and 5-4 at FC; split with Emory & Henry College 2-1 and 7-4 at E&H; split with Roanoke College 8-2 and 6-3 at home; defeated Averett College 7-2 and 5-0 at AC; defeated North Carolina Wesleyan College 2-1 and 4-1 at home; defeated Randolph-Macon Woman's College 10-1 and 18-0 at home; defeated Lynchburg College 5-0 and 7-6 (in 11 innings) at home; split with Randolph-Macon College 7-2 (VWC) and 6-5 (R-MC)
- Men's Lacrosse - (7-3 overall; 1-2 ODAC) defeated Elizabethtown College 11-2 at Duke University; defeated Greensboro College 13-10 at home; defeated Brockport State University 13-10 at home; lost to #10 Roanoke College 19-8 at home; defeated Wesley College 15-8 at home; defeated Randolph-Macon College 11-1 at R-MC; lost to #3 Lynchburg College 15-7 at home
- Women's Lacrosse - (9-1 overall; 4-0 ODAC) defeated Shenandoah University 15-8 at home; defeated Guilford College 17-9 at GC; defeated Greensboro College 14-10 at GC; defeated Christopher Newport University 15-12 at home; defeated Lynchburg College 15-9 at LC; defeated Bridgewater College 17-0 at home; defeated Marymount University 16-5 at home
- Men's Tennis - (14-2 overall; 4-1 ODAC) defeated D-II St. Paul's College 5-0 at home; defeated D-II Chowan College 6-1 at home; defeated Villa Julie College 7-0 at VJC; defeated Guilford College 7-0 at home; defeated McDaniel College 7-0 at home; defeated Hampden-Sydney College 4-3 at HSC; defeated D-II Chowan College 4-3 at CC; lost to Bridgewater College 4-3 at home
- Women's Tennis - (14-2 overall, 6-2 ODAC) defeated D-II St. Paul's College 6-0 at home; defeated Mary Baldwin College 6-0 at home; defeated Hollins University 7-2 at home; defeated Guilford College 6-3 at home; defeated Elizabeth City State University 9-0 at ECSU; defeated Randolph-Macon Woman's College 9-0 at home; defeated Bridgewater College 5-4 at home
- Golf
- Outdoor Track - Sophomore Damien Woodley placed fourth in the 200 meter dash (23.64) and seventh in the 400 (51.54) at the Captains' Classic at Christopher Newport University; junior Mark Banks placed 10th in the 800 with a time of 2:14.55 and eighth in the 1,500 (4:31.89); rookie Robert Aaron finished seventh in the 800 in a program-record time of 4:29.43.
- Outdoor Track - rookie Ashley Roane took the runner-up spot in the 1,500 (5:18.88) and placed fourth in the 800 (2:42.13) at the Captains' Classic at Christopher Newport University; rookie Ashley Ladyman placed second in the discus (98 feet, 1 inch) and third in the shot put (33-4).
Alumni Announcements
- Kristin (Taylor) Reifsnider '03 married Jonathan
Reifsnider on March 25, 2006 at Atlantic Shores Baptist
Church in Virginia Beach, Va. The couple currently reside in Chesapeake, Va. - Heather Campbell '04 is a Therapeutic Recreation Specialist at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, D.C. She resides in Arlington, Va.