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Athletics > Inside Tomcat Athletics


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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