HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Danny Williamson, head cross country and track and field coach at Lenoir-Rhyne University since 2017-18, is leaving the Bears to take the same positions at UNC Asheville. Williamson LRU’s women to a South Atlantic Conference (SAC) title, the school’s first in women’s track and field, and he was named the SAC’s Coach of the Year and a …
COLLEGE BASEBALL: Lenoir-Rhyne hires head coach from Illinois Springfield
HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY — Lenoir-Rhyne University Director of Athletics Kim Pate has announced Chris Ramirez has accepted the position of head baseball coach of the Bears. Ramirez comes to Hickory from the University of Illinois Springfield (UIS), where he was named the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Division II National Coach of the Year in 2018. He will become the 20th …
WOMEN’S COLLEGE LACROSSE: Lenoir-Rhyne edges Lincoln Memorial, faces Queens for tourney title
HobbsDailyReport.com WINGATE – Rachel Elmore and Alyssa Sack combined on Friday for 11 goals, leading Lenoir-Rhyne University to a 16-8 victory over Lincoln Memorial in a South Atlantic Conference (SAC) women’s lacrosse tournament semifinal. The second-seeded Bears (12-5) face top-seeded Queens (16-2) in the tournament final on Sunday at 1 p.m. at Wingate. Queens beat fifth-seeded Wingate 20-5 in Friday’s …
BREAKING NEWS: Lenoir-Rhyne University fires head baseball coach
Tom Fleenor had been on leave for undisclosed reasons since mid-April; Frank is interim head coach HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Eight days after placing him on paid administrative leave without comment, Lenoir-Rhyne University on Wednesday terminated head baseball coach Tom Fleenor. In an e-mail from the athletic department, the Bears said Fleenor’s six-year run as their head coach is over and …
COLLEGE BASEBALL: Lenoir-Rhyne head coach placed on leave; assistant Frank now guiding Bears
Team is tied for seventh place in SAC, trying to earn bid into league tourney HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Lenoir-Rhyne University has placed head baseball coach Tom Fleenor on paid administrative lead. Chaz Frank is serving as interim head coach, an e-mail response on Tuesday from Jeremy Zalacca, assistant athletic director for athletic communications at LRU, said in confirming both …