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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 am 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 () if interested.


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.


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 […]

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Reminder: Free basketball tickets for faculty, staff

Wake Forest athletics is offering free tickets to faculty and staff members and their immediate families for the Nov. 15 men’s basketball game between Wake Forest and Presbyterian College. The game is set for 7 p.m. at LJVM Coliseum. Tickets will be distributed starting at […]


#IntenseWakeFan profiled by Old Gold & Black

Kenny Herbst (’97), an associate professor of marketing in the Schools of Business who also happens to be a former walk-on basketball player, trended worldwide on Twitter during the 2013 ACC Tournament. His energetic support of Wake Forest as it played Maryland inspired the hashtag […]


Win tickets for basketball game, lunch

Starting Jan. 7, Wake Forest staff may register online for a lottery to win free tickets to a men’s home basketball game against Georgia Tech and a special pre-game “tailgate” lunch. The University’s Staff Advisory Council is organizing the staff appreciation event set for Feb. […]


Veterans get free basketball tickets

U.S. veterans or active duty personnel of any military branch will receive free admission to Wake Forest’s game vs. Radford on Friday, Nov. 9, at 7 p.m. in Joel Coliseum. Veterans or their family representatives can come to the Wake Forest ticket office, located at […]

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Prosser inducted into Xavier hall

Skip Prosser, the late men’s basketball coach, has been inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame at Xavier University. He was an assistant and head coach at Xavier for 15 years before coming to Wake Forest in 2001. He died in 2007.


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