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F or the third year in a row, the
Wilmington University golf team
walked away from theWhitemarsh
Valley Country Club as Central
Atlantic Collegiate Conference
Tournament champions, winning their third by 18
strokes on April 10.
With the victory, theWildcats move on to the
NCAA Division II East/Atlantic Super Regional
Tournament as the CACC’s automatic bid,
looking to defend their Super Regional team title
as well.
Ninth-year head coach Harry Jennings
has turned the program from perennial
CACCwhipping post to a conference and
regional powerhouse in a ma er of three
years. Prior to theWildcats’ three conference
championships, Post University took five in a
row, withWilmington placing second once and
in the middle of the pack the rest of the years.
Jennings has also earned back-to-back CACC
Coach of the Year awards for his efforts.
South Jersey and local products Dan
O , PJ Tighe and John Perrine; Delaware
natives Andrew Baldo, Jerry Temple and Ma
DiElueterio; and Nick Mafale fromMaryland
were the start of the transformation of this
program, Jennings said, adding that O and
Tighe helped the team to a second-place finish
in 2010 before leading the team to its first
championship in 2011.
“They were the best local products and
they helped us reach the level we are at now,
but now we have to focus on ge ing the best
student-athlete no ma er where they are from,”
Jennings said.
This season saw the first installment of the
next transformation for the men’s golf team,
as Jennings brought in a pair of international
students to mix in with the mainly local,
home-grown team. Freshman Andreas Lunding
finished playing his first season with Jennings
a er coming over fromHorsholm, Denmark,
already stamping his footprint in the CACC by
Three-Peat: Golf coachHarry Jennings is building
awinning tradition using international flair
BY DAN LAULETTA
WILMINGTON UNIVERSIT Y MAGAZINE