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Campus Review
May 7, 2013
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Across the Campus...
Athletics
Former Clayton State All-American
golfer Will Wilcox captured the biggest
win of his young career last Sunday, win-
ning the South Georgia Classic in
Valdosta, Ga. Wilcox fired a one-over-par
73 and cruised to a four-stroke win, his
first career title on the Web.com Tour.
Wilcox began the final round at the
Kinderlou Forest Golf Club with a whop-
ping seven-stroke lead – courtesy of a
course-record 63 Saturday – and never let
any of his challengers get closer than the
final margin all afternoon. Wilcox, a
third-year pro, picked up a check for
$117,000 and vaulted from No. 55 to No.
3 as the Tour reached the one-third mark
of the 2013 schedule. His season total of
$139,061 puts him on track to finish
among The 25 leading money winners
this year and earn a spot on the PGA tour
in 2014.
*****
Clayton State's Bryce Rauhof and Aryton
Azcue led the Lakers in the inaugural
Peach Belt Conference Track & Field
Championships held in Rome, Ga., this
weekend. Rauhof won two events in the
meet, while Azcue won one event and
placed second in another for the Lakers.
Clayton State finished the meet with 64
points to place seventh overall. With
Rauhof's two event wins and a fifth place
finish, he was named the Peach Belt Field
Athlete of the Year.
*****
The Clayton State men’s and women’s
Track & Field teams posted six top five
performances, led by a school record and
NCAA Division II national meet provi-
sional mark by freshman Jessica
Matthews in the triple jump at the Coach
O Invitational last Saturday in Troy, Ala.
Matthews placed second in the triple
jump, leaping 40-feet 7 ¾-inches
(12.39m), shattering her own school
record in the event. Before Saturday, her
best was a 38-10 ½ jump at the Furman
Blue Shoes Invitational. Nationally, her
jump ranks in the top-10 among all triple
jump performances this season. She was
less than a foot from hitting an automatic
mark for the NCAA Division II National
Championship meet this spring.
Women’s Tennis
Falls 5-0 to
Top-Ranked Armstrong
In NCAA Division S.E.
Regional
The 2013 Clayton State women’s tennis
season came to an end in the NCAA
Division II Southeast Regional, falling 5-
0 to the nation’s top-ranked team
Armstrong in Savannah, GAa
Armstrong, 25-1 on the season, swept all
three doubles match and then won two in
singles to capture the victory. The closest
match of the day was at No. 3 doubles as
the Laker team of Zinnia Leamana and
Raluca Pavel fell 8-4 to Armstrong’s
Clara Perez and Natasa Vukovic.
The Pirates, winners of four of the last
five NCAA Division II National
Championships, advance to Monday’s
Southeast Regional Championship
against the winner of Georgia College and
Augusta State later today.
Clayton State, ranked #32 in the country,
ends its season with a 10-12 mark. The
berth in the NCAA Division II National
Tournament was the 10th time the Lakers
have received a berth in the national
championship event.
ous other capacities, including serving on
the Clayton State Judicial Review Board,
representing Clayton State at various
external student functions, including USG
system-wide events and meetings, being
selected to serve on numerous student
committees, including a committee con-
sulted in the selection of the current uni-
versity president, and coaching the
Clayton State Debate Team.
Hynes presented the posthumous degree
to Lockhart’s mother, Meirley N.
Lockhart. Also in attendance on Saturday
was Marteace Lockhart’s sister, Dr.
Sharbrenia Lockhart-Thompson.
Clayton State’s only previous posthumous
degree ceremony in the 21st Century took
place on May 8, 2010, when a posthu-
mous Bachelor of Arts degree in History
was presented to Crystal Beale on behalf
of her late husband, Sergeant First Class
(SFC) John C. Beale. A Clayton State his-
tory major and an employee of the
Clayton County Water Authority, SFC
Beale was one of three Georgia Army
National Guardsmen killed in action in
Kapisa Province in northeast Afghanistan
on Thursday, June 4, 2009.
Lockhart, cont’d. from p. 17