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SPORTS | athlete profileKnowing Your NicheMichele Mules ’10BY ABIGAIL HILL ’12WHEN MICHELE MULES ’10 came to Wesley College, shecame with a mental checklist. She wanted a small school,Division III athletics and professors with heart. She also is ayoung woman with her eyes set on the prize. After justgraduating from Wesley in May, she feels satisfied that herundergraduate goals have been met and she is prepared for hernext step in life. This August, she will head to University ofChicago in Illinois with a passion to follow corporate law.Mules came to Wesley to play basketball, and found that theschool had a lot more to offer. Shortly after arriving, she foundher niche at Wesley and prospered from her involvement oncampus. As a dual-sport athlete in basketball and softball, shelearned how difficult it can be to manage being a part of a teamwhile keeping up with academics. However, sports became hersaving grace and taught her valuable life lessons. “Sports havekept me on track and taught me time management,” sheexplained. “I have also learned teamwork, and that it is alwaysokay to ask for help.”After finding her way on and off the court, Mules begancontemplating her future aspirations. She pursued a doublemajor in English and legal studies, hoping to settle on her careerpath. Mules expressed, “The small classroom sizes and the oneon-onesI have had with my professors have been veryimportant to my education.” She gives credit to the faculty forproviding an intellectual and personal college education. “Ourprofessors care,” she stated. Through the efforts of facultymembers such as Dr. Linda De Roche, a provider of guidance,and Dr. Flora Hessling, Mules’ inspiration, she found herpassion and chose to pursue it.In addition to allowing her the opportunity to shine in theclassroom and among the campus community, the small schoolenvironment at Wesley also afforded Mules a chance to shine onthe playing field. A three-year starter for both the women’sbasketball and softball teams, she improved each season. On thebasketball court, she established herself as a strong defenderand her 122 career three-point field goals rank her among theschool's all-time leaders. On the softball diamond, she emergedto lead the team with a .370 batting average as a junior.Residence life at Wesley was one of the most meaningfulingredients in Mules’ college experience. It offered her asense of community of which she will forever feel a part,knowing that many individuals she met will become lifelongfriends. In the College’s future, she hopes that residence lifeprograms will continue to reinforce the Wesley communitybond and thus help keep more students on campus, active andout of trouble.“Residence life has taught me about the importance ofprofessionalism,” Mules said. This lesson will serve her well asshe moves on to law school and her future career. She may betraveling across the country to pursue her next educationalgoal, but she will always have a home back at Wesley. ■24 WESLEY COLLEGE :: Spring 2010
Big MoveWesley Athletics Relocates to ‘Little School’news | SPORTSTHE WESLEY COLLEGE AthleticsDepartment recently found a new home,as several offices were relocated to whatwas formerly the Little School on NorthQueen Street in Dover. When the LittleSchool moved in 2009 from its oldlocation to a new building on Mont BlancBoulevard in Dover, Wesley was able toacquire the former site, convenientlylocated adjacent to Wesley WestFieldhouse and one block away fromScott D. Miller Stadium.The acquisition of much-needed officespace has been an exciting developmentfor the College and the AthleticsDepartment specifically. It has precipitatedrepositioning of many team and coaches’offices to consolidate the Department inone central area, making operationsmore efficient as well asmore convenient forprospective students andfamilies.To fill what is nowbeing called the WesleyAthletics House, theDepartment’s administrativeoffice, the sportsinformation office andtrack & field offices weremoved from the groundfloor of the DuPontCollege Center. Thefootball offices were repositionedfrom the FootballHouse on GovernorsAvenue and the men’ssoccer office, formerlylocated in the InternationalHouse on StateStreet, also shifted to thenewly acquired space. Thewomen’s lacrosse officealso found a new home inthe Athletics House,freeing up space for thebaseball office to movefrom the ground floor ofthe DuPont College Center to WesleyWest. The office space vacated byAthletics has been reassigned to theNursing Department, another campusprogram happy to have some extra room.The Little School is one of the oldestpreschools in Delaware, having servedover four generations of children in thebuilding on North Queen Street. It wasfounded in 1954 by Hattye Mae Biddle,who then passed the reins to her handpickedsuccessor, Jane Richter, in 1975.When it came time for owner andoperator Richter to consider the futureof the Dover preschool, she decided tojoin with two local Little School alumniand parents, along with the owners ofthe popular Kids Cottage in Lewes,Delaware, to form a new partnership andbuild a beautiful new facility in town—The Little School at Kids Cottage. TheLittle School’s administration was glad tosee their former home put to good use.The Wesley administration certainlyshares the sentiment.“The Little School has been an iconin the community for generations andWesley College is very pleased to be thenext generation of caretakers of thisproperty,” President Bill Johnstonexpressed. “The reputation for care andinterest in our youth, which began withMrs. Biddle and Mrs. Richter, willcontinue through the college studentsserved on this site.” ■Head Football Coach Mike Drass, JaneRichter, Hattye Mae Biddle and PresidentJohnston outside the new Athletics House.WEARE.WESLEY.EDU 25
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