Women's Basketball

Wittenberg University

P.O. Box 720 - Springfield, OH - 45501
Team Office: Tel: (937) 327-6463 Fax: (937) 327-6428
Team website: www4.wittenberg.edu/news/athletics/

Founded in 1845, Wittenberg is predominantly a liberal arts institution that is nationally recognized for its east Asian and Russian area studies. Despite its small size, the university offers 100 Bachelor degree programs. Majors offered include Theatre Arts Management, Piano and Organ, Journalism, Cartography, Dance, Biochemistry, Environmental Science, Marine Biology, and African-American/Black Studies. US News 2008 report on America's Best Colleges ranked Wittenberg #118 among liberal arts institutions.

Wittenberg is located in Springfield (pop.70k) about 90 miles northeast of Cincinnati.

School website
www.wittenberg.edu

College Profile

Type:

Private, Co-educational

Religious Affiliation:

Evangelical Lutheran

Enrollment:

2,100

Getting In:

Moderately difficult. ACT 25/75: 22-27

Tuition + Room & Board:

In-state: ~$39,000
Out-of-State: Same

Most Popular Majors

Business -Education- Political Science

Misc. Information

Head coach Sarah Jurewicz enters her first year at Wittenberg in 2007-08. Jurewicz takes over from Pam Smith who passed away in June 2007. Jurewicz has big shoes to fill. Through 19 seasons Smith had eleven 20+ win seasons, made seven NCAA appearances, and won ten regular season championships. Jurewicz, who played under Smith, is Wittenberg's all-time leading scorer and earned team Most Valuable Player honors three times in her Wittenberg career. She returns to Springfield after four years as an assistant coach at Colorado College. In 2007-08, Jurewicz's inaugural season, the Tigers went 15-11.

Team Name	Tigers
Colors	Red and White
Division	NCAA Division III
All-Time Record	420-191 (.687)

Recent Record (Last 8 Years)

	Last Yr	Last Yr - 1	Last Yr - 2	Previous 5 Years
Overall	15-11	15-11	19-8	105-35 (.750)
Conference	12-4	15-11	14-2	69-9 (.884)
Conf. Finish	2	2	1	2, 1, 1, 1, 3
Post Appear.	n/a	n/a	n/a	NCAA 2x
Final 25 Rank	NR	NR	NR	1x

Coaches

Head Coach	Sarah Jurewicz
	Birthday: 0000-00-00
Started at Wittenberg	2007-08
Contract Expires	?
Record as Head Coach	15-11
Record at Wittenberg	15-11
Coaching Awards

Asst. Coaches	Cody Smith

Recruiting Coordinator

Cody Smith (937) 327-7074, cjsmith@wittenberg.edu

Conference and Schedule

Wittenberg plays in the North Coast Athletic Conference (www.northcoast.org) comprised of ten schools from Ohio (7), Indiana (2) and Pennsylvania (1). Wittenberg and main rival, College of Wooster, are the perrenial powers. Over the last 17 years, only once has either Wooster or Wittenberg not won the NCAC. League play can commences in early December. The 16 league games are usually played on Wednesday evenings and Saturday afternoons with the men's. The farthest away game is at Alleghent, about 300 miles from Springfield. The season concludes with the NCAC tourney which takes the top eight teams and the winner receiving an automatic NCAA berth.

Conference Opponents

Ohio Wesleyan, Kenyon, Denison, Allegheny, Earlham, Oberlin, Wooster, Wabash, and Hiram.

Facilities

HPER Center
Capacity 3,000, Average attendance (?)