Prelude: The Chipmunk Connection - Moravian College
Prelude: The Chipmunk Connection - Moravian College
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greyhoundsports<br />
for up-to-the-minute sports news: www.moravian.edu/athletics or 610 625-7865.<br />
the top ten times in the 200-meter dash in<br />
<strong>Moravian</strong> history.<br />
Amos is<br />
FAMOUS<br />
Every dog has its day. Amos the Greyhound<br />
mascot faced down thirty-one opponents in April<br />
to win the 2010 national title in SportsTalkNY’s<br />
Mascot Madness contest! Amos received more<br />
than 94 percent of the 8,000-plus votes in the<br />
final round to win the championship. Earlier in the<br />
online competition, Amos defeated Goldy the Gopher<br />
(University of Minnesota), Timeout (Fresno<br />
State University), Iggy (Loyola Marymount University),<br />
and Ozzie the Osprey (University of North<br />
Florida). Amos also received a total makeover,<br />
morphing from a pajama-clad fuzzy-wuzzy into a<br />
buff, high-performing hound. Look for the spiffedup<br />
Amos and a new student group—the “Dawg<br />
Pack” Performers—at games this fall.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Greyhound softball team’s winning season<br />
helped <strong>Moravian</strong> finish in the Directors’ Cup top 50.<br />
<strong>Moravian</strong> Ranked in Top<br />
50 for Directors’ Cup<br />
<strong>The</strong> Greyhound athletic teams’ successful<br />
spring season helped <strong>Moravian</strong> attain<br />
a 48th-place finish (314.25 points) in the<br />
2009-10 NCAA Division III Learfield Sports<br />
Directors’ Cup Final Standings. <strong>Moravian</strong><br />
was the only Landmark Conference school<br />
to finish in the top 50, and it was the<br />
Greyhounds’ best finish in the cup’s fifteenyear<br />
history. To receive points, teams must<br />
compete in the NCAA National Championships<br />
(for individual sports) and the NCAA<br />
Tournament (for team sports). A total of<br />
311 of the 420 NCAA Division III institutions<br />
earned points in this year’s standings.<br />
Spring Spotlight<br />
photo by mark Fleming<br />
Greyhounds Set the Pace<br />
for Charitable Teamwork<br />
For <strong>Moravian</strong> athletes, fighting the good<br />
fight means more than finishing strong on<br />
the field, court, or track. When an important<br />
cause is involved—like battling breast<br />
cancer or leukemia—the Greyhounds<br />
always rise to the challenge.<br />
In April, the Greyhound football team<br />
registered more than 450 new, potential<br />
donors for the Be the Match® bone marrow<br />
campaign—far more than schools with<br />
much larger student bodies. All day long,<br />
registrants lined up inside the <strong>Moravian</strong><br />
field house to offer cell samples for the national<br />
bone marrow registry, which is used<br />
to find matches for patients with leukemia<br />
and other life-threatening diseases.<br />
Earlier this year, the women’s basketball<br />
team, led by coach Mary Beth Spirk, helped<br />
strike a blow against breast cancer by raising<br />
the most funds of any Division III team<br />
in the nation on behalf of the Pink Zone®<br />
initiative. <strong>The</strong> Greyhounds rallied to support<br />
player Amy Heffner ’11, whose mother<br />
lost her life to cancer earlier in the season.<br />
<strong>The</strong> team was honored at a national event<br />
held in April.<br />
Anna Heim ’10 won the 2010 NCAA Division<br />
III Indoor National Championship in<br />
the pole vault with an NCAA Division III<br />
all-time indoor record height of 4.16 meters<br />
(13 feet, 7¾ inches). In June, Eric Woodruff<br />
’11 competed in the 200-meter dash at the<br />
2010 United States Outdoor Track & Field<br />
Championships, after winning the NCAA<br />
Division III National Championship title<br />
on May 29 with a time of 21.04 seconds. In<br />
just three seasons, Woodruff has run nine of<br />
Greyhound football players led the April bone<br />
marrow drive, which registered 457 new donors.<br />
photo by Marty moyle<br />
22 MORAVIAN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SUMMER 2010