Wingate University Athletics

2017: Pre-season All-SAC…
 
2016: Austin Murphy started in nine of nine games he played during his junior campaign…earned All-SAC honorable mention…finished fifth on the WU team list with 15 goals and second overall in assists with 17…awarded SAC Offensive Player of the Week award for his performance on Feb. 15, 2016 in a one-goal loss to the (then) eighth-ranked Seton Hill University Griffins in a non-conference contest…scored two goals and dished out six assists in the SHU contest…posted three goals three times (Mercyhurst, Mount Olive and Lincoln Memorial)…added 13 ground balls and four caused turnovers to his 2016 stat line…

2015: Murphy topped the Wingate charts in goals (32), assists (33) and points (65)… second in the SAC in assists per game…has scored at least one goal in 23 consecutive contests, dating to his freshman season…had a season-high (and career-high tying) five goals versus nationally-ranked Queens…posted three goals each against Young Harris, Shorter and Mars Hill…distributed at least one assist in 12 of Wingate’s 15 regular season games…passed out a career-high nine assists versus Mars Hill…
 
2014: Murphy was the 2014 South Atlantic Conference Freshman of the Year…one of three Bulldogs to receive All-SAC second team laurels…led SAC in points (61) and assists (29)…on NCAA charts: fifth in points per game and sixth in assists per game…had at least one point in every SAC game…had five points or more (Brevard, Coker, Lenoir-Rhyne, Mars Hill and Tusculum) on five occasions…posted a season-high five goals twice (Mount Olive, Lees-McRae)...won Wingate’s Downtown Monroe Athlete of the Week award for his five goal/three assist performance in triple-overtime victory over Mount Olive…