TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY
LEXINGTON, KY
NCAA DIVISION III
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NCAA DIVISION III LEXINGTON, KY TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY
Transylvania
WELCOME TO
President Seamus Carey
As a former college athlete, I understand the value of participating in competitive athletics while pursuing a degree at an institution that embraces academic rigor. The things you learn about yourself and the principles of discipline, teamwork, commitment and resilience will gird you for a lifetime of challenges. You’ll also make lifelong friends and find valuable mentors among your coaches and the athletics staff. As a member of NCAA Division III, Transylvania is committed to the student-athlete ideal. In fact, 41 percent of our students participate in our 27 intercollegiate teams. We challenge our student-athletes to demonstrate high standards of character and achievement both in the classroom and on the field. Since Transylvania’s transition to the NCAA in 2001, the Pioneers have earned 50 conference championships, more than 57 NCAA tournament appearances, 53 Coach of the Year awards and 78 All-American athlete awards.
Transylvania occupies a unique and historic position in American higher education. Founded in 1780 as the first college west of the Allegheny Mountains, Transylvania was a pioneer in bringing the light of learning to what was then the nation’s frontier. Today, the university is a highly regarded liberal arts college with a reputation for the quality of our academics and the personal approach we bring to teaching and learning. With 40 majors and a number of pre-professional programs, Transylvania offers excellent preparation for graduate and professional school as well as a variety of careers immediately following graduation. Our athletic teams are called the Pioneers, and that’s not only a tribute to our honored past—it’s a way of thinking that pervades our vision of the future. Our liberal arts program emphasizes questioning and creative thinking, and that’s what leads to pioneering discoveries and notable contributions to society. Couple that with athletic competition and community spirit is amplified. We hope you’ll join us as we enthusiastically support our student-athletes—our Pioneers and the community’s future leaders.
Seamus Carey President Transylvania University
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General Information
Athletic Administration
The 2018-19 Swimming and Diving media guide was designed and compiled by Sports Information Director Justin Sweeney and Assistant Director of Sports Information Neal Settle. Special thanks to Transylvania Communications Graphic Designer Sam Cooper.
The Department of Athletics provides equitable opportunities and support for male and female students to participate in intercollegiate athletics and to compete successfully in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference, Heartland Collegiate Lacrosse Conference and Southern Athletic Association. All activities hold paramount the academic, personal and physical welfare of the student-athlete and emphasize physical fitness, selfdiscipline, teamwork, leadership and the highest standards of ethics, sportsmanship and personal performance. Student-athletes are representative of the general student population and are afforded similar opportunities and treatment. Programs, staff and facilities reflect the excellence of the institution and contribute to the quality of campus life.
Season Outlook and Review
Lettermen Returning..............................................................11 Lettermen Lost..........................................................................8 Newcomers...............................................................................17
Swimming and Diving Staff
Head Coach.......................................Dave Doolin (2nd Year) Associate Head Coach.................Keaton Koukis (7th Year) Strength and Conditioning.................................Zach Turner Swimming and Diving Office Phone...........(859)-233-8194 Twitter..............................................................@transywsoccer
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Credits
The Transylvania intercollegiate athletics program is integral to the university’s educational mission and operates under the principles of amateur athletics and fair play, as established by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III.
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VP for Enrollment and Student Life........Dr. Holly Sheilley Assist. AD of Compliance.....................................Jeff Chaney Assist. AD of Facilities.......................................Leigh Oakley Assist. AD of Outdoor Facilities........................Terry Justice Assist. AD of Sport Administration.............Kevin Calhoun Executive Assistant to VP............................Parviz Zartoshty for Enrollment and Student Life Sports Information Director..........................Justin Sweeney Asst. Director of Sports Information...................Neal Settle Strength and Conditioning Coach....................Zach Turner Faculty Athletics Representative...................Dr. Jeff Hopper Title IX Coordinator.......................................Amber Morgan
Athletics Mission Statement
TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY
Location...............................................................Lexington, Ky. Founded................................................................................1780 Affiliation....................................................NCAA Division III Conference.................................................Heartland (HCAC) Colors........................................................Crimson and White Mascot...........................................................................Pioneers President.......................................................Dr. Seamus Carey VP for Enrollment and Student Life........Dr. Holly Sheilley Athletic Department Phone...........................(859) 233-8270 Address...................300 N. Broadway, Lexington, Ky. 40508 Website................................................www.transysports.com Twitter................................................................@TransySports
QUICK FACTS
NCAA DIVISION III LEXINGTON, KY TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY
STAND OUT
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Hone your critical thinking and writing skills—abilities employers and grad schools prize—and challenge your mind and imagination through a liberal arts education.
Immerse yourself in a supportive community, intimate enough for professors to really know you, with peers who believe you’re capable of more than you ever dreamed.
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Make the most of living and learning in the heart of Lexington, a friendly and creative city, with easy access to internships, jobs and infinite opportunities to build your future.
Become a part of the large and welcoming Transylvania network where lifetime friendships are made and career networking opportunities thrive.
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TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY LEXINGTON, KY
Accounting Anthropology Art Art History Biology Biology: Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Track Biology: Molecular and Cellular Biology Track Business Administration Business Administration: Finance Track Business Administration: Management Track Business Administration: Marketing Track Business Administration: Hospitality and Tourism Track Chemistry Chemistry: Biochemistry Track Classics Computer Science Digital Arts and Media Economics Education—Elementary: P-5 Education—Middle Grades: 5-9 Educational Studies English Exercise Science
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BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE OFFERED IN:
MINORS AVAILABLE IN MOST MAJORS AND: French Language and Literature German Studies History International Affairs Mathematics Music Studies Music Education Music Performance Music Technology Neuroscience Philosophy Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Physics Political Science Psychology Religion Sociology Sociology/Anthropology Spanish Language and Literature Teaching Art Teaching Chemistry Theater Writing, Rhetoric, and Communication
Asian Studies Classical Studies Communication Creative Writing Education Minor for Secondary Certification (8-12) Environmental Studies Latin American and Caribbean Studies Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
PREPROFESSIONAL PREPARATION IN: Health Professions: dentistry, medicine, occupational therapy, optometry, pharmacy, physical therapy, veterinary medicine, nursing
Engineering Law
SELF-DESIGNED MAJORS ALSO AVAILABLE FOR EXAMPLE:
Sports Management Biopsychology International Security Criminal Behavioral Studies Social Justice
Child Study Intercultural Communication Political Communication Nutrition and Sustainability Historical Rhetoric
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NCAA DIVISION III LEXINGTON, KY TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY
L exington WELCOME TO
Transylvania University is in the heart of downtown Lexington, a city with all the excitement and entertainment of a
bustling metropolis while maintaining a small-town feel. Located in the heart of the Bluegrass regions and the second largest city in Kentucky, Lexington features something for everyone to enjoy, whether it’s Third Street Stuff, recently voted the best coffee shop in Kentucky, right around the corner from campus, the Lexington Farmer’s Market; Thursday Night Live featuring local bands and vendors at the 5/3 Pavilion; a concert or basketball game at the world famous Rupp Arena; a day at the track in the horse capital of the world at Keeneland; or a hike at Raven’s Run Nature Preserve.
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TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY
LEXINGTON, KY
NCAA DIVISION III
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NCAA DIVISION III LEXINGTON, KY TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY
Transylvania has enjoyed more than a decade of success since joining the NCAA Division III in 2004. The athletics community has excelled both on and off the field, with student-athletes thriving in the classroom and in competition.
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ACADEMIC ALL-CONFERENCE
CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS
COACH OF THE YEAR AWARDS
ALL-AMERICANS
NCAA POSTSEASON APPEARANCES
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PLAYER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD WINNERS IN 2017-18
Transylvania’s athletic training staff strives to provide the highest quality healthcare to its student-athletes. The Certified Athletic Trainers are highly qualified and trained medical professionals with diverse educational backgrounds and experiences.
Transylvania has two athletic training rooms for its student-athletes. The main athletic training room is on the performance floor of the Beck Center with the secondary training room located in the field house at the Athletics Complex and both are open daily. Each training room is equipped with state-of-the-art injury prevention and rehabilitation equipment.
Kyle Sutton joined the Transylvania Athletics Sports Medicine Staff as Assistant Athletic Trainer in 2016. Sutton brings eight years of experience in athletic training to his role at Transylvania. Sutton has previously worked at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Lexington as Head Athletic Trainer from 2015-16 and as Head Athletic Trainer at Westerville Central High School from 2008-15. Sutton received a Master of Science in Applied Exercise Science from Oklahoma State University in 2008 and a Bachelor of Science in Allied Medical Professions from The Ohio State University in 2006.
CHRISTA HENDLEY ASST. ATHLETIC TRAINER Christa Hendley joined the Transylvania Athletics Sports Medicine Staff as an Assistant Athletic Trainer in November 2017. Hendley carries over five years of experience in the athletic training realm to Transylvania. Prior to her time at Transy, Hendley served as the Head Athletic Trainer at the University of the Cumberlands from 2014 through 2017, overseeing men’s and women’s soccer, basketball, cheerleading, softball, track and field, and dance during her tenure at Cumberlands. Previous stints for Hendley include working at Lemak Sports Medicine and Orthopedics as a Head Athletic Trainer and at Chowan University.
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Transylvania partners with Lexington Clinic Sports Medicine Center to provide our student-athlete healthcare. Lexington Clinic orthopedic surgeons David Dome, Peter Hester, Ben Kibler and Trevor Wilkes serve as team doctors for the university and make weekly campus visits, eliminating the need to travel off-campus.
KYLE SUTTON ASST. ATHLETIC TRAINER
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The sports medicine staff is fully accredited by the National Athletic Trainers’ Association Board of Certification and the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The staff specializes in the prevention, assessment and rehabilitation of injuries to our student-athletes. Athletic trainers have been recognized by the American Medical Association as allied healthcare professionals since 1990.
Nick Reuss begins his eighth year with the Transylvania sports medcine staff and his third as the Director of Sports Medicine for the 2018-19 season. Reuss joined the Transylvania sports medicine staff in 2011. He holds a Master of Science in recreation and sport sciences from Ohio University and a Bachelor of Science in athletic training from Ohio University. He is a member of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association and is certified by the Kinesio Taping Association as a Kinesio Taping Practitioner.
TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY
Sports Medicine
NICK REUSS DIRECTOR OF SPORTS MEDICINE
HEAD COACH
TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY
LEXINGTON, KY
NCAA DIVISION III
Dave Doolin
Pioneers Coaching Staff
Dave Doolin enters his second year as the head swimming and diving coach at Transylvania for the 2018-19 season. Before coming to Transylvania last season, Doolin coached at nearby Tates Creek High School in Lexington where he completed a decorated seven-year career. Doolin enjoyed a budding first year at Transylvania that included the successes of multiple underclassmen, including sophomore Sarah Haerle, who captured the HCAC Championship in the women’s 200-yard breaststroke and the women’s 100yard breaststroke, and earning All-HCAC First Team honors. Eight other Pioneers in addition received All-HCAC postseason recognition during Doolin’s first season with the Pioneers. Under Doolin’s guidance, the Pioneers women’s swim team placed third at the inaugural HCAC Championship in 2018 and posted the highest GPA of all Division III women’s swim teams in the country last season.
While with Tates Creek, Doolin also coached the Lexington Dolphins swim team, a Lexington-based nonprofit club for swimmers aged 6-18 sanctioned by USA Swimming. Past swimmers with the Dolphins have gone on to compete at regional and national levels, including USA Junior Nationals, USA Nationals, and U.S. Olympic Trials. Doolin has served in a coaching capacity with the Dolphins since 1999. Doolin’s resume illustrates a pattern of developing swimmers to their highest potential, a blueprint he aspires to replicate at Transylvania. “Each swimmer is an individual, and I’m going to give every individual what they need to succeed, and that will be different for everybody,” Doolin describes as one of his core philosophies. “I consider myself a swimmer’s coach and I want to get the best out of each of them.” Swimmers who have trained under Doolin have competed at the 2000, 2008, and 2012 US Olympic trials. Prior to his tenure with Tates Creek High School, Doolin was the head swimming coach at Lexington’s Paul Laurence Dunbar High School from 2002-2007. As a high school swimming coach, Doolin’s efforts have earned him the Kentucky Swimming Coach of the Year award in 2001, the Kentucky State High School Girls Coach of the Year award in 2017, the Region 8 Girls Coach of the Year in 2017 and 2016, the Region 8 Boys Coach of the Year in 2016, and the State High School Boys Coach of the Year in 2005. Since 2001, Doolin has won seven Kentucky regional coach of the year awards. Doolin’s wide range of involvement with swimming in the state of Kentucky entails serving on the Kentucky Swimming Board of Directors since 2001. As part of the board, Doolin has worked in an assortment of roles, including program operations, coaches’ representative, program development, and as a Senior Vice-Chair from 2010 until 2016. At the conclusion of his tenure as Vice-Chair, Doolin transitioned into another tour of duty as a coaches’ representative. Doolin holds memberships with USA Swimming, the American Swimming Coaches Association, and the National Interscholastic Swim Coach Association.
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Pioneers Coaching Staff
ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH Keaton Koukis is in her seventh season with the Pioneer swimming and diving program in 2018-2019 and enters her second season as the program’s Associate Head Coach.
In her first season with Transylvania in 2012-13, Koukis served as a volunteer assistant before assuming the responsibilities of Recruiting Coordinator and Assistant Coach for the 2013-14 season.
She then took over the program as Head Coach for the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 season, two seasons during which the Pioneers excelled both in the classroom and in the pool. During her first season as Head Coach (2015-2016), both the Men’s and Women’s teams received the CSCAA Academic All-America Award for maintaining a GPA of above 3.0. Originally from Peachtree City, Ga., Koukis coached her area summer league team for five years prior to her time at Transylvania. Koukis graduated with her bachelor’s degree from Wittenberg University, in Springfield, Ohio where she majored in biology and was a four-year letterwinner for the Tigers. While at Wittenberg, she became the school record holder in the women’s 100 and 200 butterfly, and in her senior year was named women’s team captain and was an NCAA National Qualifier/All-American as a member of the 200 medley relay. Koukis earned a master’s in exercise physiology from the University of Kentucky in 2014.
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During the 2013-2014 season, the Pioneers coaching staff was awarded the OAC Women’s CoachingStaff of the Year award. In 2014-15, Koukis took the reins as the full-time assistant for the Pioneers, thesame season in which the Pioneers’ first female swimmer qualified for NCAA Division III Nationals for the first time in program history.
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During Koukis’s time at Transylvania, 17 different individual and relay records have been rewritten, along with 14 Conference Champions and one National Qualifier. During the 2017-2018 season, the women’s team had the highest GPA in the country for Division III Women’s programs.
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Keaton Koukis
NCAA DIVISION III LEXINGTON, KY TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY
2018-19 Swimming and Diving Roster Name
Class
Hometown/High School
Sophie Cobler
Freshman
Louisville, Ky. / Male
Mattie Fogle
Junior
Lexington, Ky. / Lexington Catholic
Grace Galyon
Junior
Louisville, Ky. / Eastern
Sarah Haerle
Junior
Newburgh, Ind. / Castle
Lauren Kiser
Freshman
Frankfort, Ky. / Franklin County
Emma Lloyd
Sophomore
Lexington, Ky. / Lafayette
Sarah Offutt
Sophomore
Louisville, Ky. / Mercy Academy
Benton Patrick
Freshman
Mt. Sterling, Ky. / Montgomery County
Abbie Reed
Freshman
Loveland, Ohio / Mount Notre Dame
Ashleigh Richardson
Freshman
Mt. Sterling, Ky. / Montgomery County
Lindsey Seaton
Freshman
Ashland, Ky. / Russell
Kelsey Stevens
Junior
Paducah, Ky. / Lone Oak
Sarah Teasdale
Senior
Lexington, Ky. / Bryan Station
Reese Arredondo
Freshman
Lawrenceburg, Ky. / Anderson County
Noah Collins
Sophomore
Louisville, Ky. / Male
Drew Dodds
Sophomore
Madisonville, Ky. / Madisonville-North Hopkins
Devon Parker
Freshman
Pewee Valley, Ky. / Saint Xavier
Dylan Ruddy
Freshman
Lexington, Ky. / Henry Clay
Ben Smith
Sophomore
Louisville, Ky. / Trinity
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Grace Galyon Junior Louisville, Ky. Eastern
Sarah Haerle Junior Newburgh, Ind. Castle
Lauren Kiser Freshman Frankfort, Ky. Franklin County
Emma Lloyd Sophomore Lexington, Ky. Lafayette
Sarah Offutt Sophomore Louisville, Ky. Mercy Academy
Benton Patrick Freshman Mt. Sterling, Ky. Montgomery County
Abbie Reed Freshman Loveland, Ohio Mount Notre Dame
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Mattie Fogle Junior Lexington, Ky. Lexington Catholic
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Sophie Cobler Freshman Louisville, Ky. Male
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Ashleigh Richardson Freshman Mt. Sterling, Ky. Montgomery County
Lindsey Seaton Freshman Ashland, Ky. Russell
Kelsey Stevens Junior Paducah, Ky. Lone Oak
Sarah Teasdale Senior Lexington, Ky. Bryan Station
Reese Arredondo Freshman Lawrenceburg, Ky. Anderson County
Noah Collins Sophomore Louisville, Ky. Male
Drew Dodds Sophomore Madisonville, Ky. Madisonville-North Hopkins
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Devon Parker Freshman Pewee Valley, Ky. Saint Xavier
Dylan Ruddy Freshman Lexington, Ky. Henry Clay
Ben Smith Sophomore Louisville, Ky. Trinity
2018-19
TRANSYLVANIA SWIMMING & DIVING SCHEDULE OCTOBER Sat. 27 NOVEMBER Sat. 3 Sat. 10 Fri. 16 Sat. 17
Asbury Lexington, Ky.
1:00 p.m.
Wittenberg/Wilmington 1:00 p.m. Wilmington, Ohio Sewanee 1:00 p.m. Sewanee, Tenn. Union 6:30 p.m. Lexington, Ky. Franklin 1:00 pm Franklin, Ind.
DECEMBER Sat. 1 - Sun. 2 Transylvania Invite Lancaster Aquatic Center Lexington, Ky. JANUARY Fri. 11 Sat. 12 Fri. 18
Lindsey Wilson Lexington, Ky. Anderson University Anderson, Ind. Centre College Danville, Ky.
FEBRUARY Fri. 15-Sun. 17 HCAC Championships Terre Haute, Ind.
6:00 pm 1:00 pm 6:00 pm