August 13, 2007 

DENNIS NAMED TO DIVISION II BULLETIN ALL-FRESHMAN TEAM 

KUTZTOWN, PA — Stephen Dennis (fr. West Chester/Henderson HS), Kutztown University’s point guard on the men’s basketball team, has been named to the NCAA Division II Bulletin All-Freshman team. 

            Averaging 35.9 minutes per game and starting all 28 games for KU, Dennis helped fuel the offense with 15.4 points per game. He dropped in a career-high 28 points against District of Columbia on Feb. 21. Dennis scored more than 20 points in six games, while shooting 47 percent from the field. 

            He made 32 percent of his three pointers (16-of-50) and 78.5 percent of his free throws (106-of-135). As the team’s point guard, Dennis helped the offense by dishing out a team-high 90 assists. 

            The 6-foot-4 frosh also made his presence known around the glass by grabbing 6.0 rebounds per game. 

            Previously, Dennis was named the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Eastern Division and KU Male rookie of the year.  He also earned second-team All-PSAC East honors.  

            Kutztown, under the direction of head coach Bernie Driscoll, finished 17-11 overall, 6-6 in the PSAC East last season.

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August 7, 2007

 SARAH GREER NAMED KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY WOMEN’S LACROSSE COACH

KUTZTOWN ­— Women’s lacrosse is making its return to Kutztown University and so is Sarah Greer.

             Greer was named head women’s lacrosse coach by Director of Athletics Greg Bamberger.  She will lead the returning sport into the 2008 season, as KU will field a women’s lacrosse team for the first time since 1990. 

            “We’re happy to welcome Sarah back to Kutztown,”  Bamberger said.  “She’ll do a great job in leading the women’s lacrosse program in its return to Kutztown as a varsity sport.”   

            Greer, then Sarah Wesner, was a four-year letterwinner on the KU field hockey team from 1997-2000.  She obtained her bachelor’s degree in social work in 2002.  She is also a 1996 graduate of Exeter High School.

             She returns to Kutztown from Gwynedd-Mercy College, where she was the head coach of the school’s field hockey team.  While there, she served as assistant coach and interim head coach of the women’s lacrosse squad.  She also was the intramural and facilities coordinator and the senior woman administrator. Her field hockey team was an NFHCA Academic Award recipient each of her four seasons.  Greer obtained her master’s degree in school counseling at Gwynedd-Mercy in 2006. 

            “I’m extremely excited to return to Kutztown,” Greer said.  “I am looking forward to re-launching Golden Bear women’s lacrosse and reconnecting with the alumnae of the program.”

             Greer began coaching in the collegiate ranks as a part-time assistant with KU’s field hockey team in 2001, under the direction of her mother, Betty Wesner, who is the head field hockey coach at KU. 

            Greer’s first full-time coaching job came as an assistant field hockey and lacrosse coach at Earlham College, in Richmond, Ind., in 2002.

             At Kutztown, she was the field hockey team captain and coach’s award winner in 2000.  She also was a nominee for the N4A Student-Athlete Achievement Award and the Honda Inspiration Award that season.  She was a member of the 1997 team that competed at the NCAA Division II Championships, finishing as the national runner-up.   In 1999, Greer was the team’s second-leading scorer, tying for the team lead in assists.  Greer served on Kutztown’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee executive board as secretary. 

            Greer and her husband, Samuel, a Philadelphia firefighter and marine reservist, reside in Philadelphia with their daughter, Riley Catherine, who was born in January. 

            The women’s lacrosse program was sponsored at Kutztown from 1975-90 and was responsible for the first women’s championship in school history, winning the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference title in 1982.  The sport is currently sponsored by 40 NCAA Division II institutions, including eight others in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC).  In 2009, Gannon University and Mercyhurst College will join the PSAC to make an 11-team league.

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August 6, 2007 

KU SPRING DEAN’S LIST INCLUDES 81 STUDENT-ATHLETES 

KUTZTOWN, PA – Kutztown University recently announced its dean’s list for the Spring 2007 semester.  Among those recognized were 81 Golden Bear student-athletes.  

            Students must have a grade-point average (GPA) of at least 3.60 with the completion of at least 12 credit hours for the semester to qualify for the dean’s list. 

            The eighty-one student-athletes tied the school-record for a semester, set in the fall of 2004 and matched in the spring of 2005. 

            Kutztown’s dean’s list student-athletes represent 20 sports. They are as follows: