Down to the Wire

Heart-stopping finishes clinch conference championship, NCAA berth for men’s golf

Men’s golf coach Kevin Fillman may have needed a cardiologist by the end of it, but he had no complaints as his team pulled off backto-back thrilling victories in the Big South Championship to earn the program’s first Big

The Lancers pulled off another stunning win in the finals. Down 2-0, Nick Rakes ’24, a business/economics major, and LaRue both won their matches to tie the score at two apiece. Meanwhile, Daniel George ’23, also a business/economics major, roared back to erase a four-hole deficit in the final six holes. He sank a birdie putt on the 18th and final hole to cap his comeback and clinch the win and Longwood’s first Big South title.

Next stop was the NCAA Regional at The Cliffs at Keowee Falls in Salem, South Carolina, the team’s first regional trip since 2007, when it was a fledgling Division I program.

3 selected for Longwood Athletics Hall of Fame

Repeat Performance. Longwood softball took home the Big South regular season championship with a clutch series-clinching win over Campbell. The team battled back from an early deficit on the final day of the regular season to claim a share of the regular season crown for a second-straight season.

JIMMY YARBROUGH ’82 still holds the men’s basketball single-game scoring record (46 points), but his Longwood legacy goes far beyond that. After graduating, he joined the admissions office as senior associate director, sharing his infectious love for Longwood with prospective students, and the athletics department named the annual Jimmy M. Yarbrough Inspiration Award in his honor.

CAROLYN was Longwood’s first full-time director of athletics, a position she rose to after serving as a legendary field hockey coach. While coaching, she guided the field hockey team to a national top 10 ranking with a No. 6 finish in 1975.

HOKE CURRIE was Longwood’s first full-time sports information director. A pillar in the athletics department for 19 years, he chronicled the many achievements of Lancer studentathletes. Years later, the material he gathered and the interviews he conducted made possible the recently released biography of Jerome Kersey, Overcoming the Odds