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.

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. 

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.