CAMPBELLSVILLE UNIVERSITY TO START WOMEN’S SWIMMING PROGRAM; LINDSEY NEWTON HINES HIRED AS COACH

Women’s Swimming will become the 13th sports program at Campbellsville University in the fall of 2007.  The sport will return to the athletics program for the first time since the 2000 season.

“In looking to expand our athletic program, we realized that swimming is a very popular sport that we were not offering,” said Rusty Hollingsworth, Director of Athletics at Campbellsville University.  “There are 161 high schools in the state of Kentucky that have swimming teams and there are several colleges in the area with women’s swimming.  We have the facilities already in place with the pool in the J.K. Powell Athletic Center so bringing the sport back was a natural fit,” he added.

Lindsay Newton Hines, a 2005 graduate of Campbellsville University has been hired as the coach for the new swimming team and will begin recruiting twelve to fifteen swimmers for competition this fall.

Other colleges in the area with women’s swimming include Asbury, Berea, the University of the Cumberlands, Centre, Transylvania and Union College along with many schools in Indiana and Tennessee.