Women’s Golf NCAA Champs!!!

In this Issue:

• Congratulations to our Women’s Golf Team – NCAA Champs!!!
• For new families: ensure your student uploads their immunization and other health documentation by the July 1 deadline
• New students will want to follow WFUOrientation on Instagram

I am out of the office today and tomorrow for a training class, so this is a prepost

Congratulations to our Women’s Golf Team – NCAA Champs!!!

I hope you were watching lastnight to see the amazing performance of our Women’s Golf Team. They won the NCAA Championship!

“Wake Forest women’s golf captures the National Championship title for the first time in program history and becomes the sixth Demon Deacon program to win a national championship, the first since men’s tennis in 2018.

After a memorable regular season that included five team titles and incredible moments on the course by the Wake Forest women’s golf team, the Demon Deacons were crowned as the 2023 National Champions following its match play win over USC on Wednesday night at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz.

This marks the first national championship in program history and women’s golf becomes the sixth Demon Deacon program to win a national championship, the first since men’s tennis in 2018 and the 10th overall for the school:

Wake Forest National Championship Teams

• 2023 – Women’s Golf
• 2018 – Men’s Tennis
• 2007 – Men’s Soccer
• 2004 – Field Hockey
• 2003 – Field Hockey
• 2002 – Field Hockey
• 1986 – Men’s Golf
• 1975 – Men’s Golf
• 1974 – Men’s Golf
• 1955 – Baseball

Wake Forest becomes the only school with less than 5,500 current undergraduates to have won NCAA team titles in six unique sports….

The Demon Deacons have had a historic year during the 2022-23 season with six team titles and two individual titles from back-to-back ACC Player of the Year Rachel Kuehn. The six titles is one more than the previous program record which was set last season….

In addition to Kuehn becoming the first player in program history to be a two-time ACC Player of the Year, Kuehn, Emilia Migliaccio, Lauren Walsh, Carolina Chacarra and Mimi Rhodes all earned a spot on the All-ACC Team. This marked the first time in program history that all five lineup players have earned All-League honors.”

Congratulations to our amazing Head Coach Kim Lewellen and her staff, as well as our players. You have made us all proud. Go Deacs!

For new families: ensure your student uploads their immunization and other health documentation by the July 1 deadline

There are a lot of action items on the New Student Checklist and the Transfer Student Checklist and while they are all important, some have more significant consequences than others if you do not complete them in a timely manner.

New students have to get their health information and immunization documentation uploaded in the Student Health Portal by July 1st. We remind students and families of this early and often, because they do not want to be on the ‘non-compliant’ list and have any downstream negative impacts.

Please ensure your student has reviewed the immunizations they need, are making a plan to get any that are missing, and will be able to get the documentation uploaded in time. You must trust me that it will save them stress and extra work by becoming compliant by July 1.

New students will want to follow WFU Orientation on Instagram

Each week of the summer, typically on Mondays, the Orientation office sends an email to new and transfer students with things students should know (or do!) in the near term. While those messages are for your students (and we want them to get in the habit of being responsible for reading them, vs. having their parents/loved ones prompt them to do so), we do archive all messages here.

Because I am a geeky English major type, I am going to borrow a phrase from Jane Austen that highlights one of college administrators’ challenges:

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single communications team in possession of a group of college students, must be in want of a strategy to get them to read their emails.”

A hill I am willing to die on is that students need to learn to check their WFU emails daily, because when they graduate, they will likely move on to a job or professional school, and it is highly likely their boss/faculty/etc. will communicate with them via email (not texts, not Instagram, etc.), so they need to get used to staying on top of their Inboxes now.

That said, we can augment the ways in which we communicate with students as they get used to the ‘new normal’ of college life. My intrepid colleagues in Orientation have an Instagram account that new students should be following just as a double layer of protection lest they miss something 🙂