Golf

November 8, 2007

WATERBURY, Conn.-Post University men's golf Head Coach Pete Stevens and sophomore captain Lee Wanklyn will appear on Golf 360 on Nutmeg TV, a local cable station in the Plainville and Southington area, on Thursday, Nov. 15 at 7:30 p.m.

Stevens and Wanklyn will talk about the Post University men's golf program with host Kevin Giancola, who played collegiate golf at Central Connecticut State University, earning Ping All-American and Academic All-American honors, in his career for the Blue Devils. He also played professionally on the Nike Tour, and was voted PGA Teacher of the Year in the State of Connecticut.

The Eagles concluded the fall season, finishing 10^th at the 73^rd annual New England Intercollegiate Golf Association (N.E.I.G.A.) Championships in October. The tournament featured 42 teams and 211 golfers, representing NCAA Division I, II, and III, in New England. Post finished fourth in Division II, and third among schools from the State of Connecticut.

Wanklyn had a solid fall campaign for the Eagles, capturing his first career tournament at the Dominican College Charger Challenge in October.

The Berkshire, England native was named Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Rookie of the Year last season, after finishing third overall at the 2007 CACC Championships, helping the Eagles to the team title for the second consecutive season. He won five CACC Rookie of the Week, awards, and was an All-CACC selection, with the top-10 finish.

The Eagles have been a successful program winning back-to-back CACC Championships, the 2006 N.E.I.G.A. Division II Championship, and the 2006 ECAC Division II Championship. Post has appeared in the last three NCAA Division II Northeast Regional Championship tournaments.

Stevens is in his fourth season as head coach of the men's golf program, and returned to coach the team this season, after a 15-month deployment to Iraq with the U.S. Army.

Nutmeg TV was founded in 1990, and is an independent, not for profit corporation that manages community access television (public, education and government, or P.E.G.) for eight towns in west-central Connecticut. Ordinary residents, educational institutions and local governments from the cities and towns of Avon, Berlin, Bristol, Burlington, Canton, Farmington, New Britain, and Plainville, Connecticut at eligible to create or provide television programs that are shown on Nutmeg TV's three cable channels.

Roughly 200,000 Comcast subscribers can see Golf 360 and Nutmeg TV programming on cable channels 5, 19, and 21 respectively.  

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