2019 Catawba Sports Hall of Fame Inductees:

Maher Atta – Men’s Soccer, Paige Haverty Stalcup – Women’s Golf, Radell Lockhart – Football, David Thomas – Baseball, and Melissa Schiffel Price – Women’s Swimming.

It was a busy weekend for our Catawba Chiefs Club and Catawba Athletics!

2019 Sports Hall of Fame, 2019 SAC Championship Ring Ceremony for Baseball, Senior Day for Football, 1000th Football game celebration,  SeniorDay for Volleyball, and Food Lion Sacks To Give Back sponsor promotion check presentation.

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As of today, our Catawba Chiefs Club membership is at 622 which includes 215 new members, and our business listing promo has grown to 74 business listings.

Dear current Chiefs Club membership,
If each of our current Chiefs Club members could help us find a few more people willing to join and help support our Catawba Chiefs Club, we would reach our goal of 750 members.. Ask a friend who could come with you to our Catawba home games, ask a former Catawba classmate, ask a former teammate to join. What a good reason to help get back in touch with a few people who would join OUR Catawba Chiefs Club if you asked them to. Ask someone you know that owns a local business to consider joining. Our business listing is growing just like our Chiefs Club membership and those businesses are getting a lot of exposure each Monday with our growing Chiefs Club membership e-newsletter.

We also need the support from our former Catawba student-athletes to meet this goal and our overall goal to have over 750 member in OUR Catawba Chiefs Club. If you are a former Catawba student-athlete, ask some of your teammates to join. Help give back to support the same athletic scholarships they received while playing on a team at Catawba.

Memberships start as low as only $100. You gift is tax deductible, will also place you on our weekly Chiefs Club e-newsletter that goes out each Monday, and the funds we raise with our Catawba Chiefs Club goes back to help support our athletic teams. It would really help our efforts if you would forward this message to anyone you think would consider joining and helping us get one step closer to OUR goal of 750 members.

Wednesday,November 13th
Men’s Basketball at Virginia Union – Won 84-69 - Read More


Ben Zemonek – Junior – Raleigh, NC

Former Catawba basketball and football player Dave Robbins ’66 and 1998 Catawba Sports Hall of Fame inductee stopped by to meet with the players and watch the Catawba Basketball game at Virginia Union. Read More

Friday, November 15th
Volleyball – LMU – Lost 3-0 - Read More

Morgan Hester – Senior – Salisbury, NC

Saturday, November 16th
Football – Lenoir-Rhyne – Lost 49-3 - Read More

Volleyball – Carson-Newman – Lost 3-0 - Read More

Women’s Basketball at Fayetteville State - Won 74-68 - Read More

The 2019 Catawba Sports Hall of Fame plaques have been added to the display.
Thanks to Catawba Swimming Coach Michael Sever for completing and keeping our Catawba Sports Hall of Fame updated.

Eddie Nester ’67 just helped us get one step closer to our goal of 750 Chiefs Club members.

Tuesday, November 19th
Men’s Basketball at Augusta

Saturday, November 23rd
Women’s Basketball – Lees McRae - 2:00pm
Men’s Basketball – Young Harris – 4:00pm

Ben Bielby – Sophomore – Middlebrough, England. SAC Honorable Mention - Read More

Catawba Women’s Soccer has four All Conference players - Read More

Current Chiefs Club Membership Business Listings 2019-2020

Adam Taylor Farms
	Cathy Griffin
Coe Brier Inc. Builders Mt. Pleasant, SC
Salisbury Dairy Queen
Debbie Suggs Catering	Dianne Greene
		Gamewell Mechanical
		Graeber and Associates
James River Equipment		Leslie Poteat Pampered Chef Consultant
	Martin Miller Farms	Matt Cross
	Mid Carolina Electric
		Outdoor Power Equipment
	Provisions Contracting LLC.
Rockwell Farms
Kevin McMillan
TAILGATE AMERICA
		Wilson Brown Sock Company

The Abernethy Physical Education Center is headed toward its 50th anniversary.

Abernethy Physical Education Center
2254 Yost St.
The Julius W. Abernethy Physical Education Center, home of the Catawba men's and women's basketball teams, is one of the finest on-campus athletic facilities in the state of North Carolina. The building has a seating capacity of 3,500 for basketball, and has a value of about $5 million. The facility is home to the Athletic and Physical education offices and is used extensively for intercollegiate volleyball, student activities, civic events, concerts and various athletic camps during the summer months. It was named after the late Julius W. Abernethy of Newton, N.C., and was dedicated on September 26, 1970.

Goodman Gymnasium
The Goodman Gymnasium is named in honor of Enoch A. Goodman of Salisbury.

Johnson Pool
Johnson Pool has been home to Catawba swimming since 1993, when the women's program began. The men started competition in 2006. It was built in 1970 for recreational swimming as part of the Abernathy Physical Education Center. The pool has seating for 100 fans and has dimensions in yards of 25x20x4. Catawba hosts the annual Halloween Boo Bash Relays at Johnson Pool. The facility was named in honor of Allen Johnson, Jr. Johnson was a business leader in the Rowan County area and former All-American athlete at Duke University.

FEATURES:

• Seating over 3,000 persons for intercollegiate basketball (Goodman Gymnasium)
• Converts to three full-size basketball courts for intramural play
• Indoor collegiate-size heated swimming pool
• Handball courts
• Martial arts facilities
• Physical conditioning and weightlifting rooms
• Classrooms
• Physical Education faculty offices

Explore this Facility

1951 Catawba Men’s Tennis Team

Four of the best for Catawba Sports: Horace Billings, Howard Platt, Doug Rice, and Kent Bernhardt. Kent Bernhardt was the Master of Ceremonies for the 2019 Catawba Sports Hall of Fame and Doug Rice will be the Master of Ceremonies for the 5th Annual First Pitch Dinner.

The Sacks To Give Back Food Lion promotion check presentation was made at the last home Football game against Lenoir-Rhyne. Food Lion provided 1000 meals for each sack that the Catawba Football team had this season tying the promo into the 1000th football game for Catawba. Food Lion will donate 19,000 meals to the Metrolina Food Bank.

For the 11th year in a row, the Catawba Baseball team received their SAC Championship Rings during halftime of the Catawba Lenoir-Rhyne football game. Congratulations, Catawba Baseball! 11 years in a row with either a SAC Regular Season or Tournament Championship.

The 2019 Catawba Sports Hall of Fame was a very special event. Five inductees for 2019 and 11 former inductees were able to attend this year. Maher Atta with his former Catawba Soccer teammates, including his freshman roommate Mick Wakeman, and his head Soccer coach, Peter Broadley.

Jeff Childress
Associate Athletic Director for Athletic Development
Director of the Catawba Chiefs Club
2300 W. Innes St.
Salisbury, NC 28144
704-637-4265
jchildre@catawba.edu