Thiel College sponsors
19 intercollegiate sports with 17 of those sports associated
with Division III of the National Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA) and the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC).
The PAC
is a 10-member conference that annually crowns champions in
19 sports. Members of the conference, in addition to Thiel,
are Bethany College, Chatham College, Geneva College, Grove City
Collge, Thomas More College, Saint Vincent College, Washington & Jefferson
College, Waynesburg College, and Westminster College. Men's teams
compete in baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf,
soccer, tennis, and indoor and outdoor track. Women's
teams compete in basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball,
tennis, volleyball, and indoor and outdoor track.
Thiel had 42 student-athletes named to the PAC Academic Honor
Roll during the 2006-2007 academic year. The PAC Academic Honor
Roll honors student-athletes on winter and spring varsity sports
teams who have earned a gradepoint average of 3.6 or higher on
a 4.0 scale during the semester.
Thiel was represented well in NCAA Championship
competition during the 2006-2007 year. Senior wrestler Kyle
Brown and sophomore sprinter Dorran Coley each
garnered all-America honors in their respective sports.
Brown wrestled to an eighth-place finish at
the 2007 at the 2007 NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships,
hosted by Loras College at the Five Flags Center in Dubuque,
Iowa. He finished the season 41-10 and concluded his career with
a record of 128-34. A three-time National Wrestling Coaches
Association (NWCA) Scholar all-American, he was also a four-time
PAC champion at 285 pounds.
Coley was the national runner-up in the 110-meter
high hurdles at the 2007 NCAA Divsion III National Outdoor Track
and Field Championships, hosted by the University of Wisconsin
Oshkosh at J.J. Keller Field at Titan Stadium. His second-place
time time of 14.83 was behind only the University of Massachusetts
Dartmouth's Jonathan Garcia (14.58). Coley ran of fifth-place
time of 14.32 at the 2006 NCAA Division III National Championships.
His second-place finish at the national championships is the
highest individual finish by a Tomcat track athlete ever.
Highlighting the 2006-2007 season for the
Tomcat women's programs were the peformances of senior softball
player Amber
Nichols and sophomore basketball player Amber
Bodrick.
Nichols was selected as a member of the Louisville
Slugger/National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Division
III all-East region second team while earning ESPN The Magazine
Academic All-District II Second Team accolades. Nichols, also
named to the all-PAC first team, led the PAC during the regular
season in batting average (.488), finished second in on-base
percentage (.522), fourth in stolen bases (9), sixth in hits
(41) and 10th in slugging percentage (.548). Her .488 average
placed her third among Tomcat single-season leaders.
Bodrick was named to the D3hoops.com
all-Great Lakes Region second team for the second-straight season
while also garnering her second-straight all-PAC first team selection.
She closed out the 2006-2007 regular season as Division III's
fifth-leading scorer, averaging 22.5 points-per-game. She finished
ranked second in the PAC in scoring (22.1), second in steals
(51) and third in rebounds (8.4). Bodrick became the College's
11th women's basketball player to eclipse the 1,000-point mark,
doing so in just 47 games. She heads into her junior season eighth
on the program's all-time scoring list with 1,044 points.
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