Women's Swimming | 10/26/2017 5:52:00 PM

Wingate, N.C.----The nationally-ranked Wingate University women's and men's swimming teams will face local rival Queens University of Charlotte in a unique dual meet Friday and Saturday (meet agenda). The Bulldog women will host the Royals Friday at the Wingate Natatorium. The first event is slated to begin at 4 p.m.
 
On Saturday, the Wingate men travel to Charlotte to face Queens at the Levine Center. The first event will start at 11 a.m. The four teams occupy prominent spots in the first College Swimming Coaches Association of America/TYR NCAA Division II top 25 polls of the season. The Queens men are number one, while the Wingate men are number eight. On the women's side, the Royals are number two and the Bulldogs are tied for number five (with Grand Valley State).
 
MEET INFORMATION
Queens vs. Wingate dual meet
WOMEN: Wingate University Natatorium, Wingate, N.C., Friday, Oct. 27 (4 p.m.)
MEN: Levine Center, Charlotte, N.C., Saturday, Oct. 28 (11 a.m.)
 
LOOKING BACK AT THE LAST WU-QUC DUAL MEET
MEN (Oct. 28, 2016 in Wingate): Queens finished one-two in the 400 Freestyle Relay, rallying for a 105-100 NCAA Division II men's swimming victory over Wingate at the WU Natatorium. Current assistant coach Leif-Henning Klüver ('17) won the 100 and the 200 Freestyle events to lead the hosts.
 
WOMEN (Oct. 29, 2016 in Charlotte): Queens won 10 of 11 events to take a 141-64 victory at the Levine Center. Bulldog graduate student and team captain Alex Divelbiss won the 200 Individual Medley for the visitors.
 
MEET NOTES
-Queens is the three-time defending national champion on both the women's and the men's side.
-The Wingate women have finished third, second and third in the last three NCAA events. The Bulldog men have finished in the NCAA top 16 11 years in a row. Wingate was sixth in the 2017 men's national championship meet.
-Seven Wingate student-athletes won two individual events each as the Bulldogs swept a dual meet from Catawba College last Saturday. The Wingate men won 177-65, while the Bulldog women earned a 187-56 triumph.
-Divelbiss was one of three women to win twice versus Catawba, while senior teammate and men's captain Sebastian Holmberg led four men in the double victory club.
 
QUOTEABLES
Wingate head men's and women's swimming coach Kirk Sanocki: "This meet falls at a good time on our schedule. Every team takes a different approach to achieve the same end result...we will see how our student-athletes perform in a highly competitive situation."
 
SWIMMING WORLD MAGAZINE
Swimming World Magazine featured the Wingate-Queens dual meet in its D2 Weekly Preview Wednesday night. See the article at this link.
 
WINGATE UNIVERSITY 
Wingate University, consistently ranked as a top 10 "best value" in the South by U.S. News & World Report, serves more than 3,600 students on three campuses in Wingate, Charlotte and Hendersonville, N.C. Founded in 1896, the University offers 35 undergraduate majors, 35 minors, 12 career concentrations, nine pre-professional programs, master's degrees in accounting, business, education, physician assistant studies and sport management and doctorates in education, pharmacy and physical therapy.
 
With a 14 to 1 student/teacher ratio, Wingate students gain the tools and support needed to excel in academics and apply that learning toward an extraordinary career and life. To view current news, video and story ideas, visit www.youtube.com/wingateuniversity. 
 
In addition to a robust intramural athletics program, Wingate student athletes compete in 22 NCAA Division II sports. The University has won the South Atlantic Conference Echols Athletic Excellence Award for the past 11 years. For more information, go to www.wingate.edu.
 
Wingate is first among NCAA Division II Academic All-America®-producing colleges in the 2000's with 96 selections. Among North Carolina's colleges and universities, Wingate is number one in this millennium with 96 Academic All-America® honorees. Wingate is tops among all SAC schools with 105 lifetime Academic All-America® picks. For more information on WU athletics, go to www.wingatebulldogs.com.