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Grove City junior middle hitter Ashley Branch posted 11 kills, six blocks and five aces Tuesday night in Grove City's 3-2 victory over Washington & Jefferson. (photo by Dave Miller)

THIS WEEK'S PAC WEEKLY RELEASES, STATISTICS AVAILABLE (9/17/12)

The conference weekly releases, including PAC Player of the Week awards, are now available for men's and women's cross country, football, men's soccer, women's soccer, women's tennis and volleyball. Updates statistics are also available for football, men's soccer, women's soccer, women's tennis and
volleyball
.

PAC FOOTBALL REPORT FOR SEPTEMBER 15 AVAILABLE ONLINE (9/13/12)

The PAC Football Report podcast, reviewing games from the opening weekend while previewing games on September 15, is now online. Appearing on this week's report are Thomas More head coach Jim Hilvert, Washington & Jefferson head coach Mike Sirianni and Thiel head coach Kurt Reiser.

 

THIS WEEK'S PAC WEEKLY RELEASES, STATISTICS AVAILABLE (9/10/12)

The conference weekly releases, including PAC Player of the Week awards, are now available for men's and women's cross country, football, men's soccer, women's soccer, women's tennis and volleyball. Statistics are also available for football, men's soccer, women's soccer, women's tennis and
volleyball
.

ARMED FORCES HOMECOMING HIGHLIGHTED GENEVA-FROSTBURG STATE FOOTBALL OPENER (9/7/12)

Last Saturday's Geneva-Frostburg State season opener had more to offer that its 56-53 final score. To read more about the connection between Geneva junior defensive back Ryan White and Frostburg State freshman fullback Matt Rowe, click here.


CHATHAM TABS SLEZAK AS HEAD TENNIS COACH (9/1/12)

After one season as assistant coach, Brett Slezak has been promoted to head tennis Coach at Chatham University following the resignation of former coach Allan Quackenbush. Slezak takes over the program effective immediately.

 

PAC SET TO DEBUT NEW SITE ON SEPTEMBER 19 (8/30/12)

Earlier this spring the PAC teamed up with SIDEARM Sports to develop a new and improved pacathletics.org. Well, the concepts and design are locked in and we're excited to announced that our launch date will be Wednesday, September 19. The new pacathletics.org includes a custom SIDEARM site design that highlights past and present PAC student-athletes while incorporating the latest features in video and social media integration and exclusive content surrounding the conference and its membership.

 

PAC WEEK ONE SPORT RELEASES AVAILABLE (8/27/12)
The start of the 2012-13 academic year is here, and so are the year's first conference releases! You can view releases for football, men's and women's cross country, men's soccer, women's soccer, women's tennis and volleyball here. Statistics will be available after our teams open up their seasons later this week.

 

GENEVA EARNS TOP BILLING IN 2012 PAC VOLLEYBALL PRESEASON COACHES' POLL (8/25/12)
Geneva College received five first-place votes and 85 total points to headline the 2012 PAC Volleyball Preseason Coaches’ Poll.
For more great PAC volleyball information, check out our online season preview section.

 

GENEVA EDGES THOMAS MORE FOR TOP SPOT ON 2012 PAC MEN'S SOCCER PRESEASON COACHES' POLL (8/25/12)
Geneva College garnered three first-place votes and totaled 67 points to earn the top spot on the 2012 Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) Men’s Soccer Preseason Coaches’ Poll, just edging out Thomas More College for the position. For more great PAC men's soccer information, check out our online season preview section.

 

GROVE CITY SWEEPS TOP SPOT IN 2012 PAC WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY PRESEASON COACHES' POLL(8/25/12)
Grove City College earned all 10 first-place votes in the 2012 PAC Women's Cross Country Preseason Coaches' Poll. For more great PAC women's cross country information, check out our online season preview section.

 

GROVE CITY COLLECTS SIX FIRST-PLACE VOTES, SECURES TOP SPOT ON 2012 PAC MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY PRESEASON COACHES' POLL (8/25/12)

Grove City College used six first-place votes to secure the top spot on the 2012 PAC Men's Cross Country Preseason Coaches' Poll, narrowly edging two-time reigning conference champion Saint Vincent College for top billing. The Bearcats earned the remaining three first-place votes and totaled 75 points. For more great PAC men's cross country information, check out our online season preview section.


WESTMINSTER CLAIMS SIX FIRST-PLACE VOTES TO TOP 2012 PAC WOMEN'S TENNIS PRESEASON COACHES' POLL
(8/25/12)
Westminster College earned six first-place votes and finished with 77 total points to secure the top position on the 2012 PAC Women's Tennis Preseason Coaches' Poll. For more great PAC women's tennis information check out our online season preview section.

 

THOMAS MORE, W&J TIE FOR TOP SPOT ON WOMEN'S SOCCER PRESEASON COACHES' POLL (8/25/12)
Thomas More College and Washington & Jefferson College tied atop the 2012 PAC Women’s Soccer Preseason Coaches’ Poll. For more great PAC women's soccer information check out our online season preview section.

 

KNAPP NAMED HEAD SOFTBALL COACH AT CHATHAM (8/21/12)
Chatham University Director of Athletics Scott Koskoski announced Tuesday the hiring of Kelsey Knapp as Head Softball Coach. Knapp arrives at Chatham with nine years of softball experience both as a decorated former player and coach at both the Division I and Division III levels.

 

W&J NAMES BROOKE TURNER HEAD VOLLEYBALL COACH (8/6/12)

Washington & Jefferson College Director of Athletics Bill Dukett announced the hiring of Brooke Turner as the Presidents' head volleyball coach Monday. Turner had previously served as the head volleyball coach at Division II West Liberty State University since 2007. She was also an adjunct professor at West Liberty, teaching health and physical education classes.
 

FOUR-TIME CHAMPION THOMAS MORE PICKED TO REPEAT AS 2012 PAC CHAMPIONS (8/2/12)
Four-time defending conference champion Thomas More College has been picked to capture the 2012 football championship in the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC), according to the preseason poll released at the 2012 PAC Football Media Day at Saint Vincent College today. Voters in the poll included conference head coaches, sports information directors and members of the media present at the conference media day.

 

TMC'S BOOKER NOMINEE FOR AFCA GOOD WORKS TEAM (7/31/12)
Thomas More College senior defensive back Antonio Booker is one of 117 nominees for the 2012 Allstate American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Good Works Team. The Good Works Team puts a spotlight on the countless "good works" and remarkable stories of service by student-athletes at all levels of college football competition. In order to meet the criteria set forth by Allstate and the AFCA, each player must be actively involved and committed to working with a charitable organization, service group or community service while maintaining a strong academic standing.

 

EIGHT MBB PLAYERS NAMED TO 2011-12 NABC HONORS COURT (7/24/12)
Six members of the Waynesburg University men's basketball program, along with a pair of players from Thomas More College, were recently recognized by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) as members of the 2011-12 NABC Honors Court. The NABC Honors Court recognizes collegiate basketball student-athletes who excelled in academics during the 2011-12 season.

 

WAYNESBURG ANNOUNCES ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT CHANGES (7/24/12)
The Waynesburg University Department of Athletics has announced several changes as it prepares for the 2012-13 academic year. Chief among the personnel moves is the hiring of former men's basketball assistant Larry Marshall as the school's Director of Athletics. Pat Bristor, currently Waynesburg’s Associate Dean of Students and Director of Student Activities, will return to the athletic department with the additional title of Associate Director of Athletics, while L. Randy Pettit, D.C. will serve as the Yellow Jackets’ Strength and Conditioning Coordinator as well as the school's Fitness Center Director. Head men's basketball coach Mark Christner will also take over as the school's NCAA Compliance Officer.

 

ITA RECOGNIZES FIVE PROGRAMS, 25 STUDENT-ATHLETES WITH ACADEMIC HONORS (7/23/12)
The Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) has recently announced its 2012 All-Academic Teams and Scholar-Athletes, and five PAC programs were tabbed with ITA All-Academic team honors while 25 student-athletes earned ITA Scholar-Athlete distinction. The women's programs at Grove City College, Waynesburg University and Westminster College were honored while the men's programs at Grove City and Waynesburg were also recognized for their academic achievements.

 

THREE VOLLEYBALL PROGRAMS EARN AVCA ACADEMIC HONORS (7/20/12)
The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) announced today that 533 teams have earned the AVCA Team Academic Award for the 2011-2012 season. Helping the AVCA achieve a new all-time high for the award are the PAC women's volleyball programs at Geneva College, Thiel College and Westminster College. The award honors programs that displayed excellence in the classroom during the academic year by maintaining at least a 3.30 cumulative team grade-point average on a 4.0 scale.

 

GRAF HIRED AS PAC COORDINATOR OF SOFTBALL OFFICIALS (7/16/12)
The PAC has hired Kathie Graf as the conference's coordinator of softball officials. Graf, a NCAA softball umpire with over 25 years of experience, is an active official in many of the nation’s top Division I softball-playing conferences and has considerable experience umpiring major conference championship tournaments. She currently works as a collegiate assigner at the NCAA Division II and III levels as well as the NAIA in Ohio, working with schools including Case Western Reserve University, Walsh University, Ursuline College and Notre Dame College. Graf has extensive experience working with and training amateur umpires throughout the country as a camp director and evaluator at many umpire-qualifying camps and started the Greater Akron Cleveland Umpire Association in 1999.

 

BETSY WARREN NAMED HEAD SOCCER COACH AT CHATHAM (7/16/12)
Chatham University has announced the hiring of Betsy Warren as head women's soccer coach. Warren spent the 2011 season as head coach of the women’s soccer program at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. From 2009-2011, Warren served as Director of Operations and Youth Development for the Penns Forest Football Club. Warren was an assistant women’s soccer coach at Carnegie Mellon University from 2007-2009. She began her collegiate coaching career at Ashland University, where she was an assistant men’s and women’s coach from 2004-2007. As a student-athlete, Warren was a standout soccer player at NCAA Division I Radford University. 

 

2012 PAC FOOTBALL MEDIA DAY SET FOR AUGUST 2 IN LATROBE (7/11/12)

The 2012 Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) Football Media Day will once again be hosted by Saint Vincent College in Latrobe on Thursday, August 2, in conjunction with Pittsburgh Steelers training camp. The annual media day event serves as the kickoff to the football season with each of the conference’s nine football coaches addressing the media and previewing the upcoming season for each of their respective programs. The conference preseason poll will be released that day, while video of the Q&A sessions will be available here following the event.

 

BUXTON TABBED AS NEW GROVE CITY HEAD TENNIS COACH (7/6/12)
Grove City College has hired Jeff Buxton as assistant professor of physical education and head men's and women's tennis coach. He replaces Joe Walters, who retired from Grove City College at the end of the 2011-12 academic year after 40 years of service. Buxton comes to Grove City after spending nine years as the general manager of One on One Fitness Consultants in State College, Pa. The native of Wyoming, Pa., earned a bachelor's degree in kinesiology/movement science from Penn State in 2003 and completed his master of science at California (Pa.) in 2010.

 

ROUD STEPS DOWN AS WESTMINSTER WOMEN'S GOLF COACH (7/3/12)
Debi Roud
, a three-time Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) Women's Golf Coach of the Year, has resigned as Westminster's head women's golf coach. Debi, who was the pioneer coach of the program when she was hired to guide the newly established team in 2001, will be taking over as the head teacher at the Westminster Preschool. Debi will be a part-time volunteer assistant coach so that she can remain in a limited capacity with the program she helped build from the start. Jeff Roud, Debi's husband, will be the new head coach starting this Fall. Jeff has been a volunteer assistant the last several years.  In 2012, Westminster garnered its third PAC women's golf crown and its first since 2005.

 

PAC ANNOUNCES NEW CONFERENCE OFFICERS FOR 2012-13 (7/2/12)
Brother Norman W. Hipps, O.S.B., president at Saint Vincent College, will serve as the chair of the PAC Presidents' Council in the 2012-13 academic year, starting July 1, 2012. Hipps succeeds Dr. Richard G. Jewell, J.D., president at Grove City College, who served as the chair of the PAC Presidents' Council in 2011-12. With Br. Norman assuming the chair of the PresidentsR17; Council, the other standing PAC councils will also be chaired by Saint Vincent representatives in the upcoming academic year. Rev. Myron Kirsch, O.S.B., Saint VincentR17;s athletic director, will serve as the chair of the PAC Athletic Administrators (AA) Council, while assistant athletic director Sue Hozak will chair the PAC Senior Woman Administrators Council (SWAC) in 2012-13. The PAC Faculty Athletic Representatives Association (PAC FARA) will be chaired by Dr. Rob DePasquale, a professor of accounting at Saint Vincent.

 

2011-12 PAC RELEASE ARCHIVE AVAILABLE
If you miss a week of PAC releases, you can find them in the 2011-12 PAC Release Archive. The archive also includes each PAC Football Podcast. Past years releases can also be found in the archive.


PAC NEWS ARCHIVE NOW AVAILABLE
You can catch up on PAC news from past years by going to the PAC News Archive pages for 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12.

 


The (Sharon) Herald (9/16)
Local College Football: Thiel Snaps 24-Game Losing Skid; Titans Bow

Observer-Reporter (9/16)
Flaws Not Fatal to Presidents

 

Observer-Reporter (9/16)
Waynesburg Drops Saint Vincent, 35-14

 

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (9/16)
District Game of the Week: Waynesburg Remains Unbeaten

 

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (9/16)
District Roundup: Division III

 

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (9/16)
Saint Vincent Inducts 9 Into Hall of Fame

 

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (9/16)
District Football Roundup: Other Games

 

The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register (9/16)
Bethany Falls at Randolph-Macon

 

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (9/15)

District Notebook: Ground Game Key Factor For PAC Teams

 

Sportstown Alumni Update - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (9/7)

John Hunter - Wash. & Jeff.

Sportstown Alumni Update - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (9/6)

Emily Rosati -Saint Vincent


The Register (Dearborn County) (9/6)

Starting TMC Safety Picks Off Pass

 

The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register (9/6)
Regan Brothers go Head-to-Head
 

 

Newsstand Archive

PAC School Headlines

 

UPCOMING SCHEDULE

Wednesday, September 19

Men's Soccer

(visit sport page for live feed info.)

Geneva at Franciscan, 4 p.m.

Pitt-Greensburg at St. Vincent, 4 p.m.

Thiel at Hilbert, 5 p.m.

W&J at Carnegie Mellon, 7 p.m.

Waynesburg at Mount Union, 7 p.m.
 

Women's Soccer
(visit sport page for live feed info.)

Thiel at Hilbert, 3 p.m.

Westminster at La Roche, 4 p.m.

Hanover at Thomas More, 5 p.m.

Pitt-Johnstown at Geneva, 5 p.m.

Waynesburg at Mt. Union, 5 p.m.

Marietta at Wash. & Jeff., 7 p.m.

Seton Hill at Bethany, 7:30 p.m.

Women's Tennis
(visit sport page for live feed info.)

Grove City at Waynesburg*, 3:30 p.m.

Wash. & Jeff. at Thiel*, 4 p.m.

Miami-Middletown at Thomas More, ppd.


Volleyball

(visit sport page for live feed info.)

Saint Vincent at Thiel*, 7 p.m.

 

 

RECENT SCORES & RESULTS

Tuesday, September 18

Men's Soccer

Marietta 2, Bethany 1 (ot)

Thomas More 4, Earlham 3

Westminster 4, La Roche 1

 

Women's Soccer
(visit sport page for live feed info.)

Westminster at La Roche, ppd. to 9/19

Saint Vincent 4, Pitt-Greensburg 0

Women's Tennis
(visit sport page for live feed info.)

Franciscan at Waynesburg, ppd.

Grove City at Allegheny, ppd.

Volleyball

(visit sport page for live feed info.)

Westminster 3, Waynesburg 1*
Grove City 3, W&J 2*

Pitt-Greensburg 3, Chatham 2

Bethany 3, Franciscan 0

Mount Union 3, Geneva 1

 

Monday, September 17

Women's Soccer
(visit sport page for live feed info.)

Geneva 3, Franciscan 0

Grove City 2, Mount Union 1 (ot)

Women's Tennis
(visit sport page for live feed info.)

Westminster 9, Thiel 0*
Wash. & Jeff. 5, Geneva 4*
Bethany 5, Muskingum 4

Volleyball

(visit sport page for live feed info.)

Saint Vincent 3, Mount Aloysius 0

 

Sunday, September 16

Men's Soccer

(visit sport page for live feed info.)

Medaille 9, Thiel 0

Women's Soccer
(visit sport page for live feed info.)

Muskingum 2, Chatham 0

Wash. & Jeff. 8, Pitt-Greensburg 0

Medaille 2, Thiel 1 (2OT)

Women's Tennis
(visit sport page for live feed info.)

Bethany 5, La Roche 4

Westminster 9, Pitt-Greensburg 0