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The WC women's basketball team poses after beating Franklin 79 - 71 in the Heartland Conference tournament final. The Lady Quakers went 20 - 5 overall this season and won the conference with a 10 - 2 mark. It was the third straight 20 - win season for the team. (SPORTS, cont.) NCAA Division III National Championships. Her leap earned her a second place finish. During the regular season, Rothwell achieved a level that may have never been reached before. At the Big Red Invitational at Denison University, Rothwell cleared 6' 0" in the high jump. Some NCAA officials believe that was the first time any women at the Division III level reached the six - foot mark. Records are only kept in championship meets so there is no positive way to claim her accomplishment a national record. That 6' 0" jump also qualified her for the U.S. Track and Field Indoor Championships held in Atlanta. Rothwell competed against the nation's best, including American record holder Tisha Walls. Although she didn't place at the event, it was a once - in - a - lifetime experience that she won't soon forget. Rothwell qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships in every year of her four - year stay at Wilmington. In 1997 she was national champion with a leap of 5'6'/2". On the men's track, sophomore Kevin Lucas hit a provisional time in the 400 with a run clocked in 49.65 seconds. His time set 18 SPRING 1999 Senior Nyhla Rothwell clears the high jump bar on her way to a first place finish at the Wilmington Invitational. During the indoor season, Rothwell was runner - up at the NCAA Division III Championships. a WC record, but wasn't quite good enough to get him to nationals. On the team level, the Quakers competed in just two events that were scored and both were held at Ohio Northern University. The first time around, the WC women's team placed fourth and the men placed fifth. The second time around, the Lady Quakers took home the first place trophy by recording a record - high 180 points. The men's team remained consistent and finished in the fifth spot again. The Lady Quakers finished the indoor season ranked 17th in the nation. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL The Lady Quakers added another gem to their chain of 20 - win seasons. A 20 - 5 record this year marks the third consecutive time the WC ladies have reached the mark and over those three seasons the team has a combined record of 60 - 14. The string of sparkling seasons has been directed by ninth - year coach Jerry Scheve, who owns a 146 - 79 record at Wilmington. The 1998 - '99 campaign began with great expectations as the Lady Quakers were picked to win the Heartland Conference. A few bumps in the road caused some worries, but eventually the WC ladies won the conference with a 10 - 2 record. By winning the conference they were awarded aNo. 1 seed and a first round bye in the postseason tournament. In the second round of the tournament, the Green and White machine rolled over Bluffton, 83 - 71, to set up a championship game with Franklin. The Lady Quakers avenged a regular season loss to Franklin by winning the tournament title in a 79 - 71 game. Four school records and six HCAC records were broken by this year's team. It led the conference in 11 different statistical categories and even ranked highly in national statistics. WC was second in the nation in rebounding margin (+12.2) and sixth in the nation in scoring offense (81.0 ppg). It seemed the team had all the credentials to keep the season going, but the NCAA selection committee decided against handing the Lady Quakers a bid to play in the Division III national tournament. Josie Eilerman, the HCAC's Most Valuable Player, led the Lady Quakers in scoring (17.6) and in rebounding (7.3). Her inside game complemented Heather Meranda's outside game. Meranda, the HCAC Tournament MVP, tied for the team lead in three - pointers made and was second with a scoring average of 16.4 points per game. Both players made the HCAC's All - Conference team and will return next year for a shot at a tournament bid. In the meantime, the Lady Quakers will keep themselves occupied by preparing for their May trip to Australia.
y Merle Boyle CLASS NOTES About class notes The LINK is interested in learning more about your accomplishments and other newsworthy items. Please direct information and photographs to: Class Notes, Pyle Center Box 1313, Wilmington College, Wilmington, OH 45177. Class notes may also be submitted electronically on the Wilmington College website: http://www.wilmington.edu/forms/Alumni%20Registration%20Card.cgi Materials submitted may be edited for clarity or length. When reporting the death of an alumna/us, please send a copy of the obituary, which should include the date of death. If possible, include the names and class years of any survivors who attended Wilmington College. Deadline for the next issue is June 15, 1999. ZRT S. BRAVARD retired as the director of library services of the Stevenson Library at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania effective Jan. 1, 1999. He joined the library staff in 1963 as the head technical services librarian. In 1970, he was appointed director of library services, a position he held for 28 years. Bravard and his wife, Cynthia, reside in Lock Haven, Pa. The Rev. RICHARD H. LEWIS was a fellow in residence at the University of the South, Sewanee, for two weeks in March 1999. He has been the rector of Trinity Church, Boonville, St. Paul's, Constableville, and St. Mark's, PortLeyden, New York, since 1993. BILL and CLARICE '60 PIERSON celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary on Dec. 20, 1998, with a special Hawaiian vacation. JERALD ROBERTSON was recently appointed by the Hamilton County Conservancy Court to the Board of Appraisers of the Mill Creek Valley Conservancy District. He also has been appointed to the Community Advisory Committee of the Brownfields Port Authority of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. Jerald is currently in the process of completing the requirements at the UK Extension for certification as a Master Gardener. GORDON LEE BOGGS is the program manager for the investigation and remediation of leaking and underground storage tanks in California. He is employed by the Water Quality Control Board—State of California. STANLEY PLUMLY has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ingram - Merrill Foundation Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. His newest book, The Marriage in the Trees (Ecco Press, 1997), is a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Prize. Plumly received his master's degree from Ohio University in 1968. He edited the Ohio Review from 1970 - 75 and the Iowa Review from 1976 - 78, and is currently a professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. BRIAN G. FROCK is currently a group leader at the University of Dayton Research Institute for a multi - year research effort intended to improve the U.S. Air Force's ultrasonic and X - ray CT imaging capabilities. He is also a program manager for an Air Force sponsored, multi - corporation effort aimed at reduci ng catastrophic fail ures in Air Force jet engines. JOHN HOSLER, Clinton County Department of Human Services director, was sworn in as the 1999 president of the Ohio Human Services Directors' Association (OHSDA). As president, he will serve as the association's liaison to the State Dept. of Human Services and the County Commissioners' Association of Ohio. GEORGE FORD retired from his position with the Trot wood - Madison City Schools effective Dec. 31. He began his career in education with the Dayton City Schools where he worked for nine years before joining Trotwood - Madison as its high school's assistant principal. He will be leaving his post as director of staff and community relations at the school district where he has worked since 1976. The Dayton City School District employs his wife, Edith, as a career specialist. The Fords have a son, Kirk, a daughter, Tonya, and a granddaughter, E'Taja Rachelle. GARY MITCHNER, chairperson of English at Sinclair Community College, has been named by the Ohio Bicentennial Commission to serve on its Literary Ohio committee, which is one of the professional volunteer groups responsible for planning activities to mark Ohio's bicentennial in 2003. Mitchner's poetry has been published in the Paris Review and his first book of poetry will be published in 1999. The LINK 19
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