Archive for August, 2007
August 31, 2007
A Study Abroad Fair will be held Wednesday, Sept. 12, from 2-4 p.m. on Founders terrace (rain location, Boren Lounge). Come talk to faculty representatives and student participants from six Guilford-led programs: Brunnenburg (photo, right), Ghana, Guadalajara, London, Munich, and Siena [pilot program Spring 2008], and other programs in Japan, Spain, China, and France.
Representatives from other Guilford-affiliated programs in Scotland (University of Dundee), various universities in England, Wales, Ireland, and the Netherlands, and environmental studies programs in Kenya, Australia, Costa Rica, Mexico, and the Turks & Caicos Islands will also be present to speak to prospective program participants.
Refreshments will be served. Visit the Study Abroad Web site for further information: www.guilford.edu/studyabroad
August 30, 2007
Old Dominion Athletic Conference cross country coaches chose the men’s team sixth and the women’s team seventh in preseason polls.
Washington and Lee, the defending men’s and women’s champions, topped both polls. Lynchburg occupied the third position in both the men’s and women’s polls. Roanoke, which finished only nine points behind the Generals in the women’s poll, returns three of the conference’s top seven runners. On the men’s side, Bridgewater came in at a close second, receiving two first-place votes.
Head coach JAMIE LaFOLLETTE enters his second season at the helm of the Quakers’ cross country team with 14 returning letter winners. Last season, Guilford made its best showing at the ODAC Championships.
CHARISSA DUNCAN ’10 (Radford, Va.) was Guilford’s top finisher in all but one of the team’s eight races last season. She is the Quakers’ top returning female harrier. On the men’s side, JEREMY BANTE ’08 (Wilmington, N.C.) and BRETT MCDONOUGH ’08 (Boone, N.C.) are on pace to become the first four-year letter winners in the program’s history.
Both squads open their seasons Sept. 1 at the Marlin Invitational, hosted by Virginia Wesleyan.
August 30, 2007
EMILY THOMPSON, director of Guilford Annual Funds, gave birth to William Randolph, a 7-pound, 7-ounce boy, on Aug. 29. The child is the first for Emily and her husband, Kenny.
August 30, 2007
Old Dominion Athletic Conference volleyball coaches picked Guilford 10th in the league’s preseason poll. Washington and Lee University, the defending ODAC champion, topped the 11-team poll with nine first-place votes.
Second-year head coach EMILY HAYES leads a squad that features eight returning letter winners, two seniors, and four freshmen. BECCA JONES ’09, who averaged 5.47 assists per game last season, is the Quakers’ top returning setter. KACI LOEFFLER ’09 is Guilford’s top returning defensive specialist, averaging 4.28 digs per game. She earned honorable mention All-ODAC honors a year ago.
The Quakers begin their regular-season Aug. 31 against Bluffton College in the opening game of the Eastern Mennonite University Invitational. Guilford’s first home match is Sept. 5 at 6:30 p.m. against Peace College in Ragan-Brown Field House.
ODAC Volleyball Preseason Poll
(#) Denotes first place votes
1. |
Washington and Lee |
118 (9) |
2. |
Bridgewater |
106 (1) |
3. |
Randolph-Macon |
104 (1) |
4. |
Virginia Wesleyan |
82 |
5. |
Roanoke |
74 |
6. |
Lynchburg |
72 |
7. |
Emory & Henry |
51 |
8. |
Eastern Mennonite |
43 |
9. |
Randolph |
35 |
10. |
Guilford |
25 |
11. |
Sweet Briar |
16 |
August 30, 2007
Old Dominion Athletic Conference soccer coaches picked the women’s team fifth and the men’s team eighth in preseason polls. Defending league champion Virginia Wesleyan College, which allowed only nine goals in 2006, owns the top spot in the 12-squad women’s poll. Roanoke College is first in the 10-team men’s rankings by a single point over Virginia Wesleyan.
Guilford’s women, two-time defending ODAC Tournament finalists, received 102 points in the poll, four shy of third-place Eastern Mennonite College and Lynchburg College. In 2006, the Quakers matched their school record for wins in a season with a 13-6-3 record and set a school standard with a 9-1-1 league mark. Sixth-year head coach ERIC LEWIS returns 11 letter winners from last year’s club, including seniors MICKI BOULINEAU (Little River, S.C.) and MORGAN JONES (South Royalton, Vt.). Boulineau captured 2006 Second Team All-ODAC honors after scoring a career-high 25 points on seven goals and a team-best 11 assists.
The Quakers, who went 1-1 in two preseason scrimmages, open the season against Christopher Newport University and Carnegie Mellon University this weekend in a tournament hosted by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
JEFF BATESON enters his second year as Guilford’s head men’s soccer coach after a 5-11-1 season (2-7 ODAC). He returns 15 letter winners from last year and adds eight newcomers from his first recruiting class. Junior forward SCOTT MEGUID (Durham, N.C.) is back after an all-south 2006 campaign in which he ranked among the league leaders with 24 points on 10 goals and four assists. The Quakers played Cape Fear Community College to a 1-1 draw in its first of two scheduled scrimmages.
Guilford opens the season at Ohio Wesleyan University in the Fred Myers Invitational Aug. 31 in Delaware, Ohio. The Quakers play their first home match Sept. 11 at 4 p.m. against Methodis.
ODAC Women’s Soccer Coaches Poll
(first-place votes in parentheses)
1. |
Virginia Weslayan |
137 (7) |
2. |
Washington and Lee |
133 (5) |
3. |
Eastern Mennonite |
106 |
3. |
Lynchburg |
106 |
5. |
Guilford |
102 |
6. |
Roanoke |
100 |
7. |
Randolph-Macon |
69 |
8. |
Emory & Henry |
57 |
9. |
Bridgewater |
51 |
10. |
Randolph |
29 |
11. |
Sweet Briar |
24 |
12. |
Hollins |
22 |
ODAC Men’s Soccer Coaches Poll
(first-place votes in parentheses)
1. |
Roanoke |
88 (6) |
2. |
Virginia Weslayan |
87 (2) |
3. |
Lynchburg |
81 (2) |
4. |
Washington and Lee |
72 |
5. |
Hampden-Sydney |
65 |
6. |
Eastern Mennonite |
45 |
7. |
Randolph-Macon |
38 |
8. |
Guilford |
36 |
9. |
Bridgewater |
22 |
10. |
Emory & Henry |
16 |
August 30, 2007
Three assistant coaches have been added to the Athletic Department staff: CHARETTE GUTHRIE, assistant women’s basketball coach, EMILY LAPINSKI, assistant women’s swimming coach, and FRANK MOTONDO, assistant volleyball coach.
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Guthrie makes her college coaching debut with the Quakers after starting in the high school and club ranks. The Winston-Salem, N.C., native starred on the hardcourts for North Forsyth High School where she helped coach Mike Muse’s team reach the 1997 North Carolina High School Athletic Association 4-A final. Guthrie earned honorable mention All-America recognition from USA Today in 1997 and graduated ranked second among the Vikings’ career scoring leaders. After starting her college basketball career at East Carolina University, she transferred to Winston-Salem State University for her final two seasons. The Rams averaged 19 wins per year and reached the 2001 Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Tournament semifinals with Guthrie on the roster. She earned All-CIAA Tournament honors and ranked among the league’s top three-point shooters in 2001.
While completing her bachelor’s degree in sport management, Guthrie served a year as a student assistant on coach Debra Clark’s Winston-Salem State staff. After graduating in 2002, she spent two seasons as an assistant girls’ coach at North Forsyth before helping Carver (N.C.) High School’s girls to the 2005 regular-season Piedmont Triad 3-A Conference title. Guthrie assisted North Forsyth’s boys’ teams from 2000-04 and spent three years coaching the Kappa Magic boys’ Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) team. From 2005-07 she was the head girls’ basketball coach at Atkins (N.C.) High School. Guthrie earned her master’s degree in sports studies from High Point University in 2007 and directs the CP3 All-Stars AAU team. She joins Guilford head coach STEPHANIE FLAMINI in welcoming 12 letter winners from last year’s 10-16, including Second Team All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) selection Tracey Croner ’09.
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Lapinski, a 2004 elementary education graduate of Northern Michigan University, was a member of the varsity swimming and diving team for four years. She gained coaching experience during two years as an assistant coach in the Marquette (Mich.) Area Public School System and as the swim coach and program coordinator for Marquette Community Schools. Lapinski directed the Holt Hurricanes Swim Club in 1998 and presently teaches in the Guilford County School District. She comes to head coach STEVE KACZMAREK’S staff to direct a team returning eight letter winners from last season’s unit that placed 10th at the ODAC Championships.
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Motondo comes to Guilford from New Jersey where he was head coach of West Windsor Plainsboro (N.J.) High School boys’ and girls’ volleyball teams from 2003 to 2005. In 2006, he was a volunteer assistant coach for Seton Hall University. A member of the American Volleyball Coaches Association and the United States Association of Volleyball, Motondo moved to North Carolina in 2007 and has worked as an assistant coach with the Piedmont Triad Volleyball Club Juniors-17 team. He joins second-year head coach EMILY HAYES’ team that returns eight letter winners from last year’s 3-25 unit, including honorable mention All-ODAC pick KACI LOEFFLER ’09.
August 30, 2007
Students, faculty and staff are invited to find out about Guilford’s sustainability initiatives for 2007-08 Wednesday, Sept. 5, from 1:15-2:30 p.m. in the second-floor gallery of Founders Hall.
REX HARRELL, project and sustainability manager, said, “Students and employees are invited to come out and see how they can get involved with the college’s wide variety of sustainability efforts this year. We all have the opportunity to make a big difference in making Guilford more sustainable, and this is a chance to be a part of shaping that direction.”
All are encouraged to attend, and refreshments will be provided.
For more information, contact Harrell by e-mailing rharrell@guilford.edu.
August 29, 2007
North Carolina Author Daniel Wallace will discuss his latest book, Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician, and other works Wednesday, Sept. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in Dana Auditorium. The event is free and will be followed by a book signing.
Wallace will talk about his books with Mary Dalton, media critic for WFDD-FM’s public affairs program “Voices and Viewpoints.” Dalton is an assistant professor of communications at Wake Forest University.
In addition to Mr. Sebastian, Wallace authored Big Fish, Guilford’s first-year summer reading selection. Earlier on Sept. 5, Wallace will speak at opening academic convocation, a traditional assembly for students, faculty and staff.
The parking lot behind Dana Auditorium will be reserved from 5-10 p.m. on Sept. 5 to accommodate off-campus guests.
For more information about Wallace, visit http://www.danielwallace.org.
August 29, 2007
Opening academic convocation is planned for Wednesday, Sept. 5, at 3:45 p.m. in Dana Auditorium, featuring remarks by President KENT CHABOTAR and North Carolina author Daniel Wallace.
Convocation is a 75-minute event that kicks off the new academic year. All students, faculty and staff are encouraged to attend.
President Chabotar will speak about the new year, the recent affirmation of accreditation and the importance of a summer reading program. First year students read Wallace’s Big Fish this summer and will meet with the author when he is on campus.
Wallace, whose latest novel is Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician, will take a post as distinguished chair in creative writing at UNC Chapel Hill in 2008.
Previous opening convocation speakers have included former Bennett College President Johnnetta Cole, Columbia University professor Robert Thurman, Project Vote Smart president Richard Kimball, Yale University professor Sherwin Nuland and his wife, Sarah Peterson Nuland ’70, former Greensboro Symphony conductor Stuart Malina, and author and historian James Carroll.
August 29, 2007
On Sunday, Sept. 2, JULIANA DOS SANTOS ’08, religious studies major, will lead worship in the Moon Room in Dana Auditorium. All are welcome.
