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GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSIT Y
MISSION The Gardner-Webb University Bulldog Club is vital for the University and the Athletics Department, helping to fund scholarships for the University’s 22 NCAA Division I Intercollegiate sports. Members of the Bulldog Club support the University by giving nearly 500 GWU student athletes the opportunity to achieve their academic, athletic and spiritual goals.
22 NCAA DIVISION I
INTERCOLLEGIATE
SPORTS
485 STUDENT
ATHLETES
46
MEN’S SPORTS WOMEN’S SPORTS
STUDENT ATHLETES
ON FULL ATHLETIC Baseball Basketball
SCHOLARSHIPS Basketball Cross Country
Cross Country Golf
318
Football Lacrosse
STUDENT ATHLETES
Golf Soccer
RECEIVING PARTIAL
ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIPS Soccer Softball
Swimming Swimming
121
Tennis Tennis
STUDENT ATHLETES Track & Field Track & Field
WITHOUT ATHLETIC
Wrestling Volleyball
SCHOLARSHIPS
Cheerleading Cheerleading
2019 CHRISTENBERRY AWARD WINNERS
Four Runnin’ Bulldogs were honored with the 2019 Big South
Conference Christenberry Award, the highest academic honor
that a student-athlete can receive from the conference.
Callista Eckert (Women’s Soccer), Emily Nordberg (Women’s
Swimming), Amy Turlington (Women’s Cross Country/Track
& Field) and Amanda Sahm (Volleyball) were all honored by
the league.
Eckert (Newnan, Ga.) had 4.0 GPA as an English major and
helped lead the Runnin’ Bulldogs to a runner-up finish in the
fall 2018 women’s soccer championship. The Newnan, Ga.
native appeared in 21 contests with nine starts as a senior.
She played an impressive 1,245 minutes in those contests as
a defensive midfielder and recorded one assist. For her career,
she played in 56 matches with 32 starts. Off the field, she was
a member of the Alpha Chi Honor Society, a Gardner-Webb
Dean’s List member and Big South Conference Presidential
Honor Roll member.
CALLISTA ECKERT
EMILY NORDBERG Nordberg (Woodbridge, Va.) is a four-time CCSA Academic All-Conference selection and finished her career with a 4.0 GPA as an Exercise Science major. She received Gardner-Webb’s Dee Hunt Award for academic excellence in both 2018 and 2019 and also earned the GWU One-Year Scholastic Achievement Award each of her four years as a Runnin’ Bulldog. She swam the backstroke, butterfly and freestyle and achieved personal-bests in the 50-yard freestyle (24.89 seconds), 100-yard butterfly (58.23 seconds) and 100-yard backstroke (58.96 seconds).
3.29 STUDENT-ATHLETE
CUMULATIVE GPA FOR
SPRING SEMESTER 2019
248 STUDENT-ATHLETES MADE
CONFERENCE HONOR ROLLS
WITH A 3.0 OR GREATER GPA
3,500 + HOURS OF COMMUNITY
SERVICE PERFORMED BY
GWU STUDENT ATHLETES
Sahm (Marion, Iowa) had a 4.0 GPA as an
Exercise Science major. She was the 2018 Big
South Volleyball Scholar-Athlete of the year
and appeared in all 111 sets during her senior
campaign. She is one of two student-athletes
to receive the Big South’s Graduate Fellowship.
She led the ‘Dogs with 700 assists and her 6.31
assists per set ranked seventh among Big South
Conference athletes. Sahm also led Gardner-Webb
with 23 service aces, while finishing second on the
team with 255 digs. For her career, she tallied
2,140 assists and 979 digs.
AMANDA SAHM
Turlington (Spindale, N.C.) was a mid-distance runner for track
& field and also ran cross country. She appeared in three Big
South Cross Country Championships and finished a career-best
59th this past fall. She set personal bests at the 2019 Big South
Outdoor Track & Field Championships, she set personal bests in AMY TURLINGTON
the 800-meter run (2:19.97) and 5,000-meter run (21:40.05).
The ‘Dogs led the conference with four honorees, while
Hampton was the only other school to have multiple winners The George A. Christenberry
with two. Campbell, Longwood, Winthrop and Radford were Award for Academic Excellence
also represented with one winner each. is presented annually to the male
and female student-athlete with
The 2018-19 academic year marks the fifth consecutive year
the highest GPA during their
that at least one Runnin’ Bulldog earned the George A.
undergraduate careers.
Christenberry Award for Academic Excellence.
HIGHLIGHT over ACC foes Georgia Tech
and Wake Forest, and saw
at the NCAA Southeast
Regionals in Rock Hill, S.C.
REEL
David Efianayi and D.J. Laster
sign professional contracts FOOTBALL
following their careers. End John Singleton was
named Big South Conference
BASEBALL WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Defensive Freshman of the
Saw seniors Chandler An upset of SEC member Year and Gardner-Webb placed
Redmond (Cardinals) and Florida started the season right seven on the 2018 All-Big South
Justin Kunz (Angels) selected for first-year head coach Alex team. Wins over Campbell and
in the 2019 MLB Draft in Simmons and she guided the Presbyterian highlighted a
June. The program welcomed Runnin’ Bulldogs to a winning mid-season spurt for the
new head coach Jim Chester mark with 16 wins in 2018- Runnin’ Bulldogs. Darien
following his successful stint 2019. Guard Carley Plentovich Reynolds was named league
at Barton. Former head coach earned first-team All-Big South Defensive Player of the Week
Rusty Stroupe retired as the accolades after scoring 14.1 twice and quarterback Jordan
program’s leader with 481 wins. points per game on the season. Smith was named league
Freshman of the Week twice.
MEN’S BASKETBALL CROSS COUNTRY
Made program history with its Senior Amy Turlington earned MEN’S GOLF
first trip to the NCAA Division I the George A. Christenberry In the first season of the
Tournament in March, following Award in 2019, the highest Big South’s match play
a tremendous effort to win the academic honor that a championship format,
2019 Big South Conference student-athlete can earn from Gardner-Webb finished
Tournament in Radford, Va. the Big South Conference. second at the Patriot in Ninety
Gardner-Webb won 23 games, Sandra Bolstad and Zeke Six, S.C. Coach Tee Burton’s
including regular season wins Martin each competed squad captured the Big South’s
Sportsmanship Award for also earned the Big South
the second season in a row. Sportsmanship Award.
Steffen Smith earned first-team
All-Big South honors after a LACROSSE
top-5 finish individually at the New head coach Jessie Aguglia
Championship and also made helped establish a new single-
the All-Tournament Team. season mark for wins and saw
Zack Byers and Andy Yang her Runnin’ Bulldogs post a
each earned a spot on the Big winning record in Spangler
South’s All-Freshman Team. Stadium for the first time in
the program’s short history.
WOMEN’S GOLF A three-game win streak in
Sparked by WGCA early March was the first for the
All-American Scholars Allison program as well. Talen Francis,
Chandler, Lindsay Kopek, Abby Hanscom and Monique
Linnea Hofgren, Morgan Martin each earned second-
Laird and Kristen Wong, team All-Big South honors.
Gardner-Webb posted the
No. 9 GPA nationally among MEN’S SOCCER
NCAA Division I women’s golf Rallied for a 4-4 Big South mark
programs. The 3.780 team and fifth-place finish after a
GPA was bolstered by perfect tough non-league start. Oskar
4.0 averages from Chandler Wang was a first-team All-Big
and Koppel. Gardner-Webb South choice, while Jack Hoey
posted five tournament finishes and Simen Olsen were second-
in the top-3 over the course team honorees. Brian Stepanek
of the 2018-2019 season and was a CoSIDA Academic
All-America selection and of four GWU Christenberry with Bennett claiming six of
Olsen earned Scholar All-South Award winners for 2019. those. Bennett won three CCSA
Region honors. titles. The GWU women took
SOFTBALL eighth at the Championships,
WOMEN’S SOCCER Slugger Autumn Owen was while Emily Nordberg was a
A 7-1-2 conference finish led named Big South Conference Christenberry Award Winner for
to the No. 2 seed and Freshman of the Year, the 2019. The programs welcomed
Gardner-Webb advanced all second year in a row that new head coach Mike Blum
the way to the league title a GWU hitter had earned following the season.
game before falling to Radford the honor. Gardner-Webb
1-0. The Runnin’ Bulldogs won also had Andria Booth earn MEN’S TENNIS
12 matches overall and saw first-team All-Conference The 2019 Big South Conference
Stina Kleppe and Keely Brown honors, while Brooke Perry regular season co-champions
earn first-team All-Big South and Jenna Wacaster were took the No. 1 seed into
honors. Jada Newton, Samuelle also honored by the league. the league tournament,
Grove, Brittany DeLoach and Reah Barger joined Owen on claiming the program’s
Erin Shamleffer were second the All-Freshman Team. The first Division I conference
team All-Big South selections. team had its best record since trophy. The Runnin’ Bulldogs
Newton and Maddie Turlington 2007, winning 30 games. fell to eventual champion
were on the league’s All- Radford in the semifinals, but
Freshman Team. GWU was SWIMMING claimed numerous accolades.
presented the United Soccer The Gardner-Webb men Maximilian Scholl became
Coaches Team Ethics and finished fourth at CCSA the first GWU men’s player to
Sportsmanship Award. Brown Championships, paced by 2019 finish in the final ITA individual
and Kleppe were also named to CCSA Men’s Swimmer of the rankings (#125) and was ranked
the All-Southeast Region Team. Year Tim Bennett. The men No. 15 in the final ITA regional
Callista Eckert was one had 11 All-Conference finishes, rankings. He and Millen Hurrionwere ranked No. 10 in the final She won the women’s hammer Donaldson was a member of up a weight class. He finished
ITA regional doubles rankings. throw outdoors, breaking a the league’s All-Freshman Team his season with a 26-4 overall
Hurrion and Scholl each earned school record with a distance after leading the Big South with record, but was 14-0 in dual
first-team All-Big South honors of 63.92 meters – nearly five 123 blocks. matches. He also earned
in singles and doubles and Mike meters better than any other All-SoCon honors in 2018-2019.
Griffith was named Big South Big South performer in 2019. WRESTLING
Coach of the Year. Akbarizadeh qualified for Senior Tyler Marinelli became
NCAA Regionals, placing the first Gardner-Webb
WOMEN’S TENNIS 20th. Her efforts helped the wrestler to win a Southern
A 10-8 overall record and 6-3 GWU women take sixth at the Conference title twice in a row,
league mark helped Gardner- outdoor championships. The as he captured the 165-pound
Webb finish third in the regular women finished seventh at the title in March. Marinelli also
season standings. That effort indoor championships. qualified for the NCAA Division
was paced by All-Big South I Championships for the second
selections Miljana Ristic and VOLLEYBALL season in a row, despite moving
Daniela Naupari. Ristic was a Senior Amanda Sahm was
second-team All-Big South named Big South Scholar-
choice at singles and doubles, Athlete of the Year for her sport
while Naupari joined Ristic as and was also a recipient of
a doubles selection. the 2019 Christenberry Award
from the Big South for career
TRACK & FIELD academic achievement. Hannah
Thrower Natasha Akbarizadeh
was named Big South
Conference Women’s Field
Athlete of the Year in 2019,
following a stellar final season.To say I’m incredibly grateful would be an understatement. The past 3.5 years at Gardner-Webb as a student-athlete have been the most testing, yet fulfilling years that I have experienced. I have made lifelong friends and the knowledge and expertise that I have learned from my coaches I will carry for the rest of my life. Gardner-Webb has given me opportunities to grow spiritually, physically and emotionally. I cannot thank the University enough. I’m incredibly excited to see what the football team will do this year and for years to come. SkoDawgs! —BRANDON LEAHEY
The inaugural Runnin’
Bulldog Bash was held on
Saturday, May 18 in the GWU
Tucker Student Center. This
athletics fundraising event
THE 2ND ANNUAL included fine dining, silent
RUNNIN’ BULLDOG and live auctions and featured
BASH IS SCHEDULED Major League Baseball great
FOR SATURDAY, Darryl Strawberry as the
MAY 16, 2020! keynote speaker.The moment I stepped onto the Gardner-Webb campus, I immediately knew
this was where God was calling me. I love playing volleyball, and when given
the opportunity to play at the collegiate D1 level, I went for it. Not only has
this community helped me further my education and let me play the game
I love, but it has also helped me grow in my relationship with God. The people
here are incredible, and the love and support we receive from all of our faculty,
coaches, and students really does make Gardner-Webb feel like a home away
from home.
—ABBEY SPRINKLE
BULLDOG CLUB MY TEAM*
As a Bulldog Club Member, you’ll get exclusive benefits like Have a favorite GWU team? Support them through the My Team
hospitality access, season ticket packages, priority seating and program. Your gift will be designated to your team of choice,
discounts on Gardner-Webb memorabilia. But even better, your enhancing that program’s potential for athletic and academic
generosity will empower hundreds of Gardner-Webb student excellence. Those giving to My Team programs are eligible
athletes to achieve their academic, athletic and spiritual goals. to receive numerous Bulldog Club benefits. Like Bulldog Club
Championships begin with scholarships. Through your Bulldog memberships, My Team memberships are active for 12 months
Club Membership, student-athletes are transformed into following the date of the gift.
champions on and off the field.
*Any My Team donation of $500.00 or more receives a Bulldog Club polo.BULLDOG CLUB PRIVILEGES 2020
VARSITY CAPTAIN ALL-CONFERENCE SCHOLARSHIP
BENEFITS/MEMBERSHIP LEVEL $100+ $300+ $500+
ALL-AMERICAN
$1,00+ $25,000+
BULLDOG CLUB CAR DECAL
BULLDOG CLUB E-NEWSLETTER
INVITATIONS TO BULLDOG CLUB EVENTS AND TRIPS (including
annual Hall of Fame Banquet)
15% GWU CAMPUS SHOP DISCOUNT
(Membership Card)
HOSPITALITY
(Football/Basketball/Baseball) 2 4 4 6
SEASON TICKETS 25% 25% 25%
Discount 4 6
(Football/Basketball/Baseball) Discount Discount
BULLDOG POLO SHIRT
PARKING (Football) C Lot C Lot B Lot A Lot
PARKING (Basketball) Bost Bost
BULLDOG JACKET
LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP STATUSGIVING OPTIONS
ONE-TIME GIFTS PLEDGES MATCHING GIFTS OTHER METHODS OF GIVING
Annual gifts may be made Individuals can pledge their Many employers will Gifts of Stock/Gifts of Real
with cash, check, credit or gift to the Bulldog Club or My graciously match their Property/Estate Gifts. Gifts
debit card. Team program. Pledges must employees’ contributions made to the Bulldog Club are
be paid in full within 12 months to charitable or educational tax-deductible. Individuals
following the date of the organizations. These matching declining all benefits associated
pledge. Individuals may fulfill contributions will be applied with their annual gift level
their pledge through monthly toward your annual membership are eligible for their gifts to
or quarterly bank draft or level in the Bulldog Club or be 100% tax-deductible.
credit/debit card withdrawals. My Team program. Individuals accepting benefits
should consult with their tax
advisors when accounting for
charitable donations in their
annual tax filing.
ONLINE GIVING IS EASY.
Visit gardner-webb.edu/give to make your Bulldog Club or MyTeam gift.
Thank you for your support.
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