Anderson University (D2 SC) Adds Men's Lacrosse

ANDERSON, S.C. – Anderson University will be adding men's lacrosse to its expanding list of intercollegiate sports opportunities with the addition of men's lacrosse, as announced on Monday by Vice President for Athletics, Dr. Bert Epting, Jr. Albert Mitchell has been named as the Trojans' head coach and will lead the program, beginning Monday. The Black and Gold's inaugural season will be during the 2020-2021 academic year and will raise AU's varsity sports offerings to 19 sports, including the coed cheer squad.

 The Trojans join nine other South Atlantic Conference members who currently offer men's lacrosse and with the addition of men's lacrosse in the Electric City, the SAC will boast 11 members sponsoring the sport (UVa Wise and Carson-Newman are the exceptions), including national powerhouse Limestone, which will join the league next year.

"We are very excited about the addition of men's lacrosse to Anderson University and I am certain the team will contribute to our legacy of athletic success," said President Evans Whitaker. "More importantly, the young men who join our program will receive an excellent education rooted in character development and intentional discipleship. We are looking forward to the future of Trojan athletics with great anticipation."

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William Peace Univeristy (D3 NC) Adds Lacrosse

RALEIGH, NC – William Peace University is proud to announce the addition of Men's and Women's Lacrosse to its athletics roster. With the additions, WPU becomes the only higher education institution in the Raleigh area to offer NCAA men's lacrosse. The University will immediately conduct a national search for a head coach and staff, explore development strategies, and begin recruiting student-athletes for competition with an anticipated start date of spring 2018.

"We are thrilled to be adding the exciting and growing sport of lacrosse to Pacer Athletics," said Brian C. Ralph, Ph.D., President of William Peace University. "Our student-athletes are difference makers in competition, in the classroom and in the community. I am confident our new lacrosse teams will be substantive contributors to campus life and our academic programs. We all look forward to welcoming these new Pacers and cheering them on."

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Sports' Role in Small-College Enrollment

In his first year as president of Alderson-Broaddus College, Rick Creehan is overseeing a transformation of the Philippi, W.Va., campus through the expansion of the school’s athletics program. Football, men’s and women’s lacrosse, women’s tennis and men’s volleyball will begin play in 2012, and the college intends to add a marching band, a color guard, and cheerleading and dance programs in 2013. Groundbreaking on a new outdoor multisport complex will take place in April, although Creehan says that, as of now, the college has only raised enough money to pay for the turf and lights.

It’s the same formula that Creehan followed at Adrian College as executive vice president, working under Jeffrey Docking, that school’s like-minded president. Adrian doubled its enrollment and operating budget in six years through the construction of sports and recreation facilities — the two men had similar successes earlier at Washington & Jefferson College — and now Docking is moving on to an expansion of the academic program at Adrian while his former colleague toils at the obscure and unheralded A-B.

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