Social Work Graduate Program Ranked 23rd Nationally

Winthrop’s social work graduate students rated their social work education as among the top in the country, according to graduateprograms.com.

Te online site announced its 2016 rankings of top social work graduate programs based on student ratings and reviews from current and recent graduate students. Winthrop ranked 23rd in the nation and was the only South Carolina social work program in the top 50 rank- ings. Rankings cover a variety of areas such as academic competitiveness, career support, financial aid and quality of networking opportunities.

Te Department of Social Work was rated particularly high in the areas of quality of instruction, degree satisfac- tion, career advising, student diversity and networking opportunities.

The 2015-16 lacrosse team is pictured with the Big South Conference cham- pionship trophy. This marked the team’s second straight conference title.

• Te women’s lacrosse and women’s tennis teams captured their respective Big South Conference championships and made appear- ances in the NCAA tournament this past spring. It was the lacrosse team’s second straight title and the women’s tennis team’s 18th conference championship.

• Marthaline Cooper placed third in the hammer throw at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. She was voted the 2016 Big South Conference Women’s Field Athlete of the Year and quali- fied for the U.S. Olympic Trials.

• More than 61 percent of student-athletes achieved at least a 3.0 grade point average for the 2015-16 academic year to earn Big South Conference Presidential Honor Roll distinction. Winthrop placed 165 out of 270 student-athletes on the prestigious list, in- cluding 11 athletes who achieved a perfect 4.0 GPA for the year.

Join Us for Winthrop Night with the Charlotte Hornets

Members of the Winthrop community are invited to a fun night of basketball when the Charlotte Hornets take on the Atlanta Hawks on Friday, Nov. 18, at 7 p.m., at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. Tickets are available at discounted rates of $22 and $35. Te Alumni Association will be handing out free Winthrop swag. To purchase tickets, please visit http://bit.ly/2dCEjFB and use promo code EAGLES. Please note the link does not work on mobile devices.

• Winthrop’s 18 sports teams raised their cumulative GPA to a record-high 3.16 while finishing the spring semester with a 3.16 as well.

• Tree teams — women’s tennis and men’s and women’s golf — were recognized by the NCAA for ranking in the top 10 percentile of the Division I Academic Progress Rate for the 2014-15 academic year. Te teams were named recipients of the NCAA’s Public Recog- nition Award.

• Te 2016 baseball team earned the Big South Conference Sports- manship Award.

• Men’s tennis player Steven Patrick ’16 was awarded one of two Bob McCloskey Insurance Big South Conference Graduate Fellowships. Patrick plans to attend medical school.

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Student-Athletes Impress In and Out of the Classroom