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The oldest collegiate rivalry in the South doesn't feature any Division I school that might immediately come to mind.  You need only look to a pair of ODAC campuses to find that distinction.  In a gridiron battle simply penned "The Game," Randolph-Macon College and Hampden-Sydney College will be meeting for the 114th time this November, continuing an annual football feud that began in 1893.  While the pigskin may provide the most visible example, those that follow Yellow Jacket, Tiger and ODAC athletics know that same spirit spreads to other R-MC/H-SC showdowns no matter the sport.  Chris Preston from the Shelburne News and Varsity Magazine touched on this and more in a recent feature for ESPN posted on ESPN.com.  [Read the Article]

The opening event of the 2008-09 Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) athletic schedule has officially been set.  The 2008 ODAC Football Media Day will be held on Friday, August 8 at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Virginia.  The annual meeting will begin at 11:00 a.m.  Media looking to attend the event should contact the ODAC office.   [More] 

For the third time in the last five years, three athletes received top honors in a vote of the league’s track and field coaches.  Bridgewater College’s Melvin Queen and Scott Decker from Lynchburg College share the 2008 ODAC Male Track and Field Athlete of the Year award.  Roanoke College’s Robin Yerkes was tabbed as the 2008 ODAC Female Track and Field Athlete of the Year.  [More]

Hampden-Sydney Athletic Director Joe Bush announced today that former Tiger basketball standout Dee Vick has accepted the offer to become the eighteenth head coach in the history of Hampden-Sydney’s basketball program. Vick, who served the last five years as the top assistant under former Hampden-Sydney Hall of Fame basketball coach Tony Shaver at The College of William and Mary, returns to his alma mater following the departure of Bubba Smith.  [More] 

Washington and Lee has won 24 league titles over the past three years including seven during the 2007-08 academic year to retain its sixth straight Dan Wooldridge Overall Sports Champion Cup.  The Generals also won both the ODAC Men's Commissioner's Cup and the ODAC Women's Commissioner's Cup, marking the fourth and fifth successive competition victories, respectively.  Roanoke and Virginia Wesleyan round out the top three in the overall competition.  [More]

Each spring, the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Board of Directors recognizes its top female and male athletes with a pair of the conference’s highest honors.  This year, the 2008 Marjorie Berkley Scholar-Athlete Award winner as the top female student-athlete is Lynchburg College senior, Lauren Askey.  The 2008 Harry G. “Doc” Jopson Scholar-Athlete Award was presented to a pair of student-athletes.  Bridgewater College senior, Jeff Highfill, and Washington and Lee University senior, Nathaniel James, share the league’s top male student-athlete honor. [More]

The Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) has announced that Washington and Lee senior Nathaniel James (Keller,Texas/Keller) is the 2008 recipient of the Byron Nelson Award, which is presented by Cleveland Golf in conjunction with the Four Seasons Resort and Club Las Colinas, the Salesmanship Club of Dallas and Friends of Golf.  James is the first winner from a NCAA Division III school.  Each of the previous six winners played collegiately at NCAA Division I institutions. [More] 

Randolph College announced on Tuesday that it has selected Tina Hill, former director of athletics at Cornell College in Iowa, as Randolph College’s new athletic director.  Hill will succeed Heather Somers who served as interim athletic director for 2007-08, following the departure of Val Cushman to Washington and Lee University in September 2007.   [More]

Bridgewater College athletics director announced Friday that Greg Spector has been named the new women’s volleyball head coach.  Spector becomes just the second coach in the program’s history. He succeeds Mary Frances Heishman who started the volleyball program in 1975. Coach Heishman retired as volleyball coach following the 2007 season.  [More]

Mike Zucconi of Eastern Mennonite University has been named the 2007-08 Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Sports Information Director of the Year, as voted on by the league's sports information professionals.  Zucconi recently completed his second year as the sports information director at EMU, where he is responsible for the promotion of the Royals’ 15-sport athletic program.
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Lynchburg senior shortstop, Ronnie LaBrie, was named the Player of the Year while Randolph-Macon head coach, Ray Hedrick, earned his first conference Coach of the Year award in the annual voting by the league's coaches.  Washington and Lee senior outfielder, James Madden, was tabbed the ODAC/Farm Bureau Scholar-Athlete in a vote of the league’s sports information directors.   Virginia Wesleyan's Gary Bulman and R-MC’s Byron Mendenhall were deadlocked in voting for the other two awards, lending to co-pitchers and co-rookies of the year.  [More]

Lynchburg College goalkeeper Garrett Curran added a little more fuel to an already exciting Hornets’ campaign by earning the ODAC men’s lacrosse Player of the Year award as well as the ODAC/Farm Bureau Scholar-Athlete of the Year award.  Virginia Wesleyan College mentor J.P. Stewart was named the Coach of the Year, and Roanoke College attack Matt Quinton was tabbed the Rookie of the Year.  [More]