September 27, 2001
On Campus

Athletic Prowess

Wittenberg Athletics Teams To Appear On Time Warner Cable In Dayton Area During 2001-02 School Year

Wittenberg University athletic teams will appear on Time Warner Cable in the Dayton area over the next few months, beginning with this week's football game on Saturday, Sept. 29 at 1 p.m. between the Tigers and the Allegheny College Gators at Edwards-Maurer Field in Springfield. Time Warner Television will cover other Wittenberg sporting events as well, including a volleyball match at Wittenberg on Wednesday, Oct. 10 and two basketball games in January.

The Wittenberg-Allegheny football game will be cablecast on Saturday, Sept. 29 at 10 p.m., Monday, Oct. 1 at 9:30 p.m. and Thursday, Oct. 4 at 9:30 p.m. The volleyball match will be cablecast on Thursday, Oct. 11 at 10 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 14 at 4 p.m. and Monday, Oct. 15 at 9:30 p.m. The programs can be found on Time Warner Cable systems on channel 25 or 69 in Dayton, channel 30 in the Dayton suburbs, and channel 59 in communities further north. Subscribers are encouraged to check their local listings.

The winner of the annual Allegheny-Wittenberg showdown has gone on to win the North Coast Athletic Conference championship every year since 1990. Wittenberg, which is seeking its fifth consecutive league title in 2001, is off to a 3-1 start. Allegheny, which was picked to finish second to the Tigers in the media preseason poll, is 1-2, but its two losses came against teams ranked in the top five in the country in NCAA Division III.

Time Warner Cable owns and manages the world's most advanced, best-clustered cable television operations, with 90 percent of its 12.6 million customers in systems of 100,000 subscribers or more. It is a division of AOL Time Warner Inc. Time Warner Cable's Western Ohio Division serves more than 400,000 customers in 28 counties.

Ryan Maurer
Ryan Maurer
Associate Director of Athletics for Communications, Web Strategy & Content

About Wittenberg

Wittenberg's curriculum has centered on the liberal arts as an education that develops the individual's capacity to think, read, and communicate with precision, understanding, and imagination. We are dedicated to active, engaged learning in the core disciplines of the arts and sciences and in pre-professional education grounded in the liberal arts. Known for the quality of our faculty and their teaching, Wittenberg has more Ohio Professors of the Year than any four-year institution in the state. The university has also been recognized nationally for excellence in community service, sustainability, and intercollegiate athletics. Located among the beautiful rolling hills and hollows of Springfield, Ohio, Wittenberg offers more than 100 majors, minors and special programs, enviable student-faculty research opportunities, a unique student success center, service and study options close to home and abroad, a stellar athletics tradition, and successful career preparation.

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