For Immediate Release
ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT RELEASE –4.28.03
Contact: Christina Cracolici
Phone: (781) 283-2003
E-mail: ccracoli@wellesley.edu
Wellesley Adds Softball to Varsity Competition in 2004-05
WELLESLEY, Mass. – Wellesley College Athletics
Director Louise O’Neal announced that the sport of softball
will become the Wellesley’s newest varsity sport, beginning
intercollegiate athletic competition in 2004-05.
O’Neal reports that Wellesley will immediately begin the search
for a softball coach to lead the development of this new program.
“The Wellesley College community is extremely pleased with
the addition of a softball team to our intercollegiate athletic
program,” said O’Neal. “With the addition of a
state-of-the art softball facility as part of Wellesley’s
36-million dollar field’s project, it was a natural
progression in continuing to offer increased opportunities for Wellesley
students.”
Wellesley, a member of the New England Women’s and Men’s
Athletic Conference, currently sponsors 12 intercollegiate
sports – crew, cross country, basketball, field hockey, golf,
soccer, fencing, squash, tennis, lacrosse, volleyball, and swimming
and diving - competing on the NCAA Division III level.
“As with all of its sports the NEWMAC offers tremendous competition
and opportunities for its member schools and student-athletes,”
said O’Neal. “We look forward to participating in its
softball tradition.”
Wellesley softball will join Babson, Clark, Coast Guard, Mount Holyoke,
MIT, Smith, Springfield, WPI and Wheaton in NEWMAC competition in
the spring of 2005. The NEWMAC has sponsored championships in softball
since 1988. Each year the conference champion earns an automatic
bid to the NCAA Division III National Tournament.
TRANSACTION: Wellesley College Adds Varsity Softball in
2004-05.
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