SUMMER 2021


Winthrop, Rock Hill Schools Launch Dual Credit Partnership


Launching in fall 2022, the first program in the dual credit partnership will allow high school students to take advanced courses in Spanish and French while simultaneously earning high school and college credit. Instruction will take place on both the Winthrop campus and in Rock Hill Schools.


Interim President George Hynd, right, Rock Hill Schools Superintendent Bill Cook, left, and Rock Hill Schools’ students display the dual partnership agreement following a June 16 signing ceremony.


Winthrop and Rock Hill Schools have embarked on a new dual credit partnership that will offer Rock Hill high school students exciting opportunities taking college-level courses delivered by Winthrop faculty.


“We truly appreciate every opportunity to work with Rock Hill Schools,” said Interim President George Hynd. “This new partnership, along with other dual enrollment opportunities, provides so many benefits to our local high school students. Incorporating another language into their academics at such a key point will help them be competitive in the workforce and be a better communicator and critical thinker. It acclimates them to a higher education environment, and can advance them in their higher education careers – which we of course hope will be at Winthrop.”


Learn more about this program or get more information on dual enrollment opportunities.


CAMPUS NEWS


Esports Earns Two National Championships


In just its second year of existence, the esports team was crowned the 2021 Rocket League Champion at the Collegiate Esports National Championship and also claimed its first League of Legends College Championship.


Tristian Correll was named the tournament’s Rocket League MVP.


Winthrop defeated Northwood University and the University of Akron, the top collegiate Rocket League teams, as well as two-time champions Maryville University in the League of Legions tournament.


The team earlier this spring also won the first Big South Invitational.


“The Girl with Seven Names” Selected as Common Book for Second Year


Winthrop’s Common Book, “The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story” by Hyeonseo Lee, was a popular choice last year and has been chosen again as the 2021-22 Common Book selection.


An international bestseller, the book portrays a 17-year- old girl’s harrowing journey escaping one of the most secretive regimes in the world during the height of North Korea’s famine in the 1990s.


Incoming freshmen and transfer students will receive the book during the summer.


Students will discuss the book in various classes and will engage in programming and conversations about its themes in their residence halls.


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First-year students are also encouraged to attend Common Book-related cultural events, which are open to Winthrop and the surrounding community, throughout the fall and spring semesters.


Prosser, Lay Named Head Basketball Coaches


Winthrop Athletics recently announced new head coaches for the men’s and women’s basketball programs.


Mark Prosser was hired as the seventh head coach in men’s basketball history. Prosser formerly served as an assistant coach and later associate head coach at Winthrop from 2012-18. Most recently he was head coach at Western Carolina University.


After serving as the interim head coach for the 2020-21 season, Semeka Randall Lay was named the women’s basketball head coach. Lay, who was a standout player at the University of Tennessee, brings to the position a wealth of coaching and playing experience.


Mark Prosser


Semeka Randall Lay


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