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Campus Update
They speak fluent tennis...
Women’s tennis team sees Final Four
Clayton State’s women’s tennis team returned to campus on May 14 after competing in the NCAA Division II Final Four in Altamonte Springs, Fla. While it could certainly be said that the seven team members were returning “home,” in reality Morrow, Ga., is a long way from home for these seven scholar-athletes, all of whom are from Europe.
While this diverse team’s six native tongues may run the gamut from English to Swedish to French, they conclusively proved during the past season that they all speak fluent tennis. Ranked 12th nationally for much of the season, Clayton State’s tennis players became the
third Laker team this aca-
demic year to advance to at
least the NCAA Division II
Elite Eight in their respective
sport, finishing with an 18-8
record and reaching the Final
Four before losing to third-ranked Lynn.
Coach Le Trone Mason’s 2011 tennis team included: Jes- sica Budd, Bristol, England; Marie Cercelletti, Domvallier, France; Martina Dedaj, Pula, Croatia; Charlotte Fabricius, Stockholm, Sweden; Ivana Krommelova, Nove Zamky, Slo- vakia; Viktoriya Semyrodenko, Donetsk, Ukraine; and Katie White, Wolverhampton, England.
Clayton State has its
first U.S. Open participant
Kordecki, Bullen, Howell and Poudevigne named Wood Faculty Development Scholarship winners
Women’s Tennis Team
The recipients of the 2011 Martha M. Wood Faculty Devel- opment Scholarships at Clayton State University are: Dr. Greg Kordecki, School of Business; Dr. Maria Bullen, School of Busi- ness; Dr. Christina Howell, College of Arts and Sciences; and Dr. Melanie Poudevigne, College of Arts and Sciences.
The purpose of the Martha Wood Faculty Development Endowment Fund is to support professional development for Clayton State University faculty seeking to improve their teaching expertise, while broadening their knowledge of teaching theory.
Two $1,000 scholarships and one $500 scholarship are awarded annually to any full or part-time faculty with at least one year of teaching at Clayton State who meet the qualifying criteria. With four recipients this year, Kordecki and Bullen will evenly split a $1000 scholarship. Recipients are required to submit a written report upon completion of their professional development activities.
The Wood family
Kordecki
Bullen Howell
Poudevigne
Will Wilcox, 25, who played for the
Clayton State Lakers from 2006 through
2009, teed it up as part of the 156-man
field for the 2011 U.S. Open. Wilcox shot
a 79-75 for a two-round total of 154, 12
over par. Although he missed the cut,
Wilcox, who turned pro in 2009, had al-
ready had a successful 2011 season,
starting on the Hooters Tour and earning Nationwide Tour status after finishing third in the Stadion Athens Classic. He was also 11th in the recent Rex Hospital Open. In 2010 Wilcox won on both the Hooters and Canadian tours, and won on the Hooters Tour in 2011.
Wilcox
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