Calling all crawling babies of faculty and staff
Wake Forest Athletics is seeking crawling babies to film a promotional video on Friday, Oct. 26 at 11 a.m. inside the Coliseum. Faculty and staff babies will be featured in the video used to promote the first Deacon Diaper Derby to be held at halftime of the Dec. 29 men’s basketball game. Friends’ babies are also welcome. Please email Lenny Mathis (MathisLD@wfu.edu) if interested.
Categories: Inside WFU
Message from Coach Manning about Faculty/Staff Appreciation game
This message was emailed to faculty and staff on behalf of Coach Danny Manning by Wake Forest Communications and External Relations:
Dear Faculty and Staff-
As the semester comes to a close, I wanted to take this opportunity to wish you and your family a fantastic holiday season.
On Saturday, December 23, we host Tennessee from the SEC and I want to invite you and your family to attend the game. Wake Forest Athletics is offering free tickets and T-shirts to faculty and staff members and their families. The game is set for 12:30 PM at LJVM Coliseum.
Tickets will be distributed beginning at 11 AM at tables marked Faculty/Staff in the coliseum’s main lobby at the east entrance. Staff and faculty may come to the tables and show their Wake Forest ID card to request the number of tickets needed for their family. Athletics staff will distribute tickets at that time.
I hope to see you at the game.
Go Deacs!
Coach Danny Manning
Categories: Faculty News, Inside WFU, Staff News
Coach Manning: Faculty-staff appreciation day set for Dec. 22
This message was e-mailed to faculty and staff today on behalf of Coach Danny Manning:
Dear Faculty and Staff:
In the last year and a half, our staff and families have come to love and enjoy Wake Forest. It is truly a special place and we want to thank you for all that you do to support not only our men’s basketball team but our entire athletics department.
Next Tuesday, December 22 we host a nationally-ranked Xavier basketball team in the Skip Prosser Classic and I want to invite you to attend the game with your family.
Wake Forest Athletics is offering free tickets and t-shirts to faculty and staff members and their families. The game is set for 7 p.m. at LJVM Coliseum.
Tickets will be distributed starting at 5:30 p.m. at tables marked Faculty/Staff in the coliseum’s main lobby at the east entrance. Staff and faculty may come to the tables and show their Wake Forest ID card to request the number of tickets needed for their family. Athletics staff will distribute tickets at that time.
I hope to see you at the game.
Go Deacs!
Coach Danny Manning
Categories: Guest Post
Coach Manning's basketball clinic for women set for Sept. 13
Men’s Head Basketball Coach Danny Manning will present a basketball clinic in September for women who want to learn the basic rules and strategies of college basketball while having a good time doing it.
Danny Manning’s Women’s Basketball 101 Clinic will be held at 5 p.m. Sept. 13 at the Coliseum. Cost will be $30 for staff and faculty of Wake Forest and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. A $40 fee will be charged to others.
Participants will be led through on-court drills by the basketball coaching staff, in addition to getting an introduction to the game’s technical side.
A group photograph will also be taken featuring the clinic students and the coaches.
To register, call 336-758-5011 or visit wakeforestsports.com.
Categories: Events
Griffin ('69) delivers pre-game speech that inspires win over UNC
No one was more emotional about Wake’s 73-67 home win over 19th-ranked North Carolina than Julie Griffin, who accepted coach Jeff Bzdelik’s request to deliver a pre-game speech to his players, writes Bret Strelow in the Fayetteville Observer.
“Julie Griffin, a former Wake cheerleader who started working at the university two years after her 1969 graduation and retired from an athletics department position six months ago, entered the locker room with a notecard featuring a long list of Demon Deacon wins over UNC. She went through a game-by-game rundown, finishing with a 2010 road victory that occurred when Wake’s Travis McKie was a high school senior.…Griffin ended her speech by telling the players, ‘I’ll see you in the quad,’ and tossing a roll of toilet paper at them.”
Read the full story: “Emotional win for Wake Forest puts pregame speaker in tears“
Categories: Alumni News
