Winthrop Athletics on TV

Once again I find myself apologizing for it taking longer than a week to get a new blog out to keeping you, our loyal fan base, in the dark about what is going on around the coliseum. Well, here it is finally and with news to tell.


I am proud to say that the first edition of Inside Winthrop is complete and now airing on Comporium channel 18 in Rock Hill. Parts of the show (coach interviews) can be seen on the website. If you watch the interviews the only thing you are missing is the Kicks vs. Cancer segment and the Campus Spotlight featuring Boyd Jones and DSU. The next show will be filmed during basketball Media Day on Oct. 12, in Charlotte and will air around Oct. 20. If you miss a show don’t worry there are plenty of chances to see it. Inside Winthrop airs Monday through Friday on Channel 18. At 4 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays, 2 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and at Noon on Fridays.

Also beginning this week is the first installment of the Winthrop EagleTV Game of the Week. The game can be seen each night on Channel 18 at 9 p.m. and on Saturday afternoons at 2 p.m. This week’s Game of the Week is the volleyball team’s 3-1 victory over South Carolina. You will need to catch it soon if you haven’t seen it. It will be replaced by the recent women’s soccer overtime game against Georgia State tomorrow or Friday. Possibilities for next week’s game will be either Volleyball against High Point or men’s soccer vs. Liberty we will see how it goes.

So, if you live in the Rock Hill area and you get Comporium Cable checkout Channel 18 from time to time for Inside Winthrop and the Game of the Week. We are optimistically hoping to make channel 18 your source for Winthrop Athletics moving into basketball season but we still have to remember to take baby steps this first year. If you are outside the Rock Hill area, give us some time to work with channel 18, and hopefully we will be able to take our show to DirecTV in the future but don’t worry, we will continue to put pieces of Inside Winthrop on winthropeagles.com and you can get all the games on the Big South Network and watch archives whenever you want. So stay tuned as our video presents continues to expand. Go Eagles!

Fall Sports

Wow, with all that is going on it appears that we have not had a new blog in a while. So, here it is the first blog of September. At first glance it would appear that the Eagles are struggling a bit in the fall sports. But let us take a closer look.

Volleyball is 2-7. The two wins are against Seton Hall and South Carolina (A Big East opponent and a SEC opponent). There are a lot of Big South schools with better records that would love such wins. In Fact, as a conference the Big South has just two wins over teams from the Big 6 Conferences (ACC, SEC, Big 12, Big 10, Pac 10, and Big East) and Winthrop has both of them. The Eagles are playing an extremely difficult non-conference schedule and of the seven losses two are to ranked teams (Wisconsin and Northern Iowa), three are to major conference opponents (Kansas, Clemson, and Wisconsin) and two more have been in five sets (William & Mary and College of Charleston). The final tune-up for conference play comes this weekend as the Eagles fly to Georgia Southern for its final three non-conference matches against Ga. Southern, South Alabama, and East Tennessee State.

Men’s Soccer is 2-2 with wins over Brevard and Long Island and losses to Mercer and UNC Wilmington. Wilmington is ranked in the top 25 and Mercer played in its league’s championship match last season. Many people were disappointed in the showing against Mercer last Sunday but were much more encouraged by the performance against Wilmington. This is a team that just needs to learn to come to go to work every day. The Eagles are extremely talented but also extremely young and sometime young players don’t feel like they have to play hard or give max effort in very game. We saw some of that in the preseason and we have seen it early this season. But I honestly feel like things will work out for the Eagles. They are too good and Coach Posipanko will teach them that they need to take every team seriously. In college, everyone is good enough to beat you if you don’t play hard. They will learn.

Women’s soccer is 0-4-1 and what has to be remembered is that this team is learning a new system and a new coach. The tie against Marshall got everyone’s attention thinking hey this might be a turn-around season. But with just two goals over the last four matches we need to realize it doesn’t happen that quickly. I expect this team to improve with each match hopefully by the end of conference season things will begin to come together. The ladies will be at home on Friday against Georgia State. That is our next home event so come out and support the Eagles.

Don’t forget that many games can be seen on-line via the Big South Network. Go to bigsouthsports.com and sign up to follow the Eagles live. Also be on the lookout for new videos on winthropeagles.com and even a couple of new shows on Comporium Cable 18 for those in the Rock Hill area.

GO EAGLES