PAC FOOTBALL PODCAST FOR SEPTEMBER 4 NOW ONLINE (9/2/10)
The first PAC Football Podcast
of the 2010 season, covering all six games on Saturday,
September 4, is now online in .mp3 format. Right click on the
link to
download.
PAC CROSS COUNTRY PREVIEW: SVC TO PUSH GROVE CITY (8/31/10)
PAC cross country has traditionally been the domain of the
Grove City Wolverines, as the GCC men are 19-time PAC champions
while the women have won 21 league titles in a row. However, a
new contender may emerge this fall in the form of Saint Vincent,
which has run close to Grove City in the past few PAC meets and
is now entering its first season of eligibility for the PAC
title. 2009 runner-ups Thiel (men) and Westminster (women) also
figure to be in the mix at the 2010 PAC Championships, slated
for October 30 at Waynesburg. The 2010
PAC Cross Country Preview is now online, along with the
2010 league composite schedule.
THOMAS MORE PICKED TO REPEAT IN 2010 VOLLEYBALL POLL
(8/31/10)
Thomas More has been picked to repeat
as PAC volleyball champions in 2010,
according to a preseason poll of league volleyball coaches.
The Saints, led by head coach John Spinney, garnered
seven of 10 possible first place votes to finish with 87 points
in the poll. After Thomas More, 2009 PAC runner-up Thiel was
predicted to finish second, receiving the other three first
place votes and 79 points overall. Rounding out the preseason
poll are Saint Vincent (70), Westminster (61), Bethany (49),
Washington & Jefferson (39), Grove City (30), Waynesburg (23),
and Chatham (12). Geneva, an NCAA Division III provisional
member, was picked to go 12-6 against PAC teams in 2010.
FIRST 2010 PAC FOOTBALL WEEKLY RELEASE NOW ONLINE (8/30/10)
Are you ready for some football? The PAC is, with six games
involving conference teams on tap for this Saturday (Sept. 4) as
we kickoff the 2010 grid campaign. The first
conference weekly football press release
of 2010 is now online, while the first PAC press releases for
all other fall sports will be online next Tuesday (Sept. 7), one
day later than usual due to the Labor Day holiday.
2010 PAC WOMEN''S TENNIS PREVIEW: GROVE CITY ROLLS ON
(8/30/10)
For 23 years, the Grove City Wolverines have been the
standard of excellence in PAC women's tennis, as GCC has
captured every conference championship since the 1987 season.
The Wolverines show no sign of slowing down, as the 2009 squad
became the first team in PAC history to capture an NCAA playoff
victory. Westminster, the league runner-up the past four years,
is coming off a school-record 15-2 season and will lead the
challengers for the PAC crown, which also will include Saint
Vincent (first year of active D-III membership) and Thiel
(restarting the program after a three-year hiatus). The
2010 PAC Women's Tennis preview is
now online, while the conference
composite schedule is also available.
2010 PAC VOLLEYBALL PREVIEW: TMC SPIKERS LEAD THE WAY
(8/27/10)
PAC volleyball has been controlled at the top by two
programs the past four years, with Thomas More (2006, '09) and
Westminster (2007, '08) each capturing a pair of conference
titles. Last year, the top-seeded Saints won the crown with a
three-set sweep of upstart Thiel, who earned the second seed.
Among the programs set to challenge the defending champions in
2010 is Saint Vincent, in its first year of NCAA D-III
eligibility after posting a couple of ECAC titles during its
provisional membership period. The
2010 PAC Volleyball Preview is now online, along with the
2010 PAC volleyball composite schedule,
while the preseason coaches poll will be released early next
week.
2010 PAC WOMEN'S SOCCER PREVIEW: W&J HAS MOMENTUM (8/26/10)
The 2009 PAC women's soccer race appeared to have regular
season champion Grove City and #2 seed Thomas More on a
collision course for the PAC title, but defending 2008
conference champion Washington & Jefferson had other plans. The
Presidents, who entered the PAC Tournament as the third seed,
posted a pair of postseason upsets, topping the Saints 2-1 in
overtime in the semifinal round and the Wolverines 1-0 in the
title tilt to earn their second straight conference title. Can
W&J keep the momentum going this fall, or will a new PAC
champion emerge? Read all about it in the
2010 PAC Women's Soccer Preview.
The 2010 PAC women's soccer composite
schedule is also online.
2010 PAC MEN'S SOCCER PREVIEW: PARITY REIGNS AT THE TOP
(8/25/10)
When the Thomas More Saints captured their first-ever PAC
men's soccer championship with a 1-0 title match victory over
Washington & Jefferson last season, it continued a trend of
parity at the top of the PAC standings. With the victory, TMC
became the fourth different PAC champion in men's soccer in the
past five seasons, joining Westminster (2006, '08), Grove City
(2005) and W&J (2007). This year, the four recent champions will
be pushed by a group of steadily improving young programs
looking to move into the upper echelon of the conference. Read
all about it in the 2010 PAC Men's
Soccer Preview, while the 2010 PAC
men's soccer composite schedule is also online.
2010 PAC FOOTBALL PREVIEW: SAINTS LOOK FOR "THREE-PEAT"
(8/24/10)
Will the Thomas More Saints capture their third consecutive
PAC football crown? Will fellow preseason Top 25 power
Washington & Jefferson knock the Saints off their throne? Will
another PAC program surprise the top two programs from 2009?
Will the PAC earn two NCAA Division III playoff berths for the
fourth time in the past six years in 2010? These questions and
others will be answered beginning Saturday, Sept. 4 when the PAC
football season kicks off. In preparations for the upcoming
kickoff, previews of all nine PAC football programs are
available in the 2010 PAC Football
Preview, which is now online. Also, don't forget that
coaches previews for all nine programs from the 2010 PAC
Football Media Day in Latrobe are now online. Click on
the following links to see the coaches speeches from
Tim Weaver of Bethany,
Geno DeMarco of Geneva,
Chris Smith of Grove City,
Bob Colbert of Saint Vincent,
Kurt Reiser of Thiel,
Jim Hilvert of Thomas More,
Mike Sirianni of Washington & Jefferson,
Rick Shepas of Waynesburg and
Jeff Hand of Westminster. The 2010 conference
football composite schedule and
preseason poll are also available.
2009-10 PAC RELEASE ARCHIVE AVAILABLE
If you miss a week of PAC releases, you can find them in the
2009-10
PAC Release Archive. The archive also includes each PAC
Football Podcast.
Past years releases can also be found in the archive.
PAC NEWS ARCHIVE NOW AVAILABLE
You can catch up on PAC news from past years
by going to the PAC News Archive pages
for
2005-06,
2006-07,
2007-08,
2008-09,
2009-10 and
2010-11.