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Tennis: A Season to Remember

October 28, 2022
Coach Troy Donato led the women’s tennis team’s stellar season as it became the third team in Wilmington University Athletics’ NCAA era to win a regional tournament. For the Wilmington University women’s tennis team, the 2021–22 season was one of unprecedented achievement. Made up of seven international players — two from Spain, two from England, and one each from Austria, South…
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Recruiting Champions Worldwide

May 2, 2022
Soccer Wildcat Manuela Restrepo Ramirez hails from Medellin, Colombia. They come from Austria, England, Spain, the Czech Republic, Jamaica, South Africa, Colombia, and other countries throughout the world. With skills that could take them to many colleges, these…
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Hall of Famers: 2011-12 Golf Team

April 29, 2022
From left: Dan Ott, John Perrine, Jerry Temple, PJ Tighe, Cameron Sprowls, Head Coach Harry Jennings, Assistant Coach Mark Hall, Andrew Baldo The Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference has inducted the 2011-12 Wilmington University men’s golf team into the CACC Hall of…
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Kim Huggins-Habbert: Setting a High Ceiling

April 29, 2022
Kim Huggins-Habbert has good memories of the days when her women’s volleyball team played at the Pratt Student Center. But she’s grateful that Wilmington University chose to invest in its state-of-the-art Athletics Complex in Newark, Delaware, which opened in 2012.  This year will mark Huggins-Habbert’s 19th as head coach of the women’s volleyball team. She began the same year WilmU…
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Nick Papanicolas: Coaching ‘The Beautiful Game’

April 29, 2022
Nick Papanicolas When Dimitrios and Maria Papanicolas arrived in the United States from Greece in 1968, their plan was to stay only a few years to help Dimitrios’ brothers with their new restaurant on Kirkwood Highway in Wilmington. Hundreds of past and present Wilmington…
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Powerful Words from Student-Athletes

November 9, 2021
Support. Family. Educate. Care. Team. Leaders. Express. Speak. Listen. Wilmington University staff, faculty, and students will be seeing those words in various formats and venues this fall. They are among the most prominent elements in a word cloud created by the…
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On the Road with Juan-Pablo Bernal

November 5, 2021
left to right:Henric Karlsson, club director at Kramfors Alliansen, Sweden, shaking hands with Juan-Pablo Bernal. sealing Juan’s first professional contract as a soccer player. For Juan-Pablo Bernal, soccer — “the global game” — opened a door to the world. The urge to explore that followed led him most recently to spend nearly half a year in Central America, hiking, surfing, and…
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Wildcats Have Made Their Mark In Division II

November 21, 2019
It’s been 15 years since Wilmington University sports transitioned from NAIA to the more competitive NCAA Division II status, and the numbers indicate the move has been successful. Back in 2004, the University fielded teams in nine sports: baseball, softball, women’s…
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Wildcat Athletes Take Their Games to Europe

July 17, 2019
Two former Wildcat athletes are pursuing their sports in Europe on the professional level after record-setting careers at the University. Amelia Simmons Amelia Simmons, class of 2010, the only basketball All-American (Division II) in WilmU’s history, has played in Germany, Greece and Malta in the past six years. Now a resident of Msida, Malta, Simmons was picked to play for the Malta National…
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