DUE WEST-- Erskine College Director of Athletics Mark Peeler announced Friday the addition of Men's and Women's Track & Field and Acrobatics & Tumbling for the 2019-20 academic year. Recruitment for all three new programs will begin immediately but official competition will not begin until 2019-20. The coaching search process is already under way with hiring expected to be completed by this summer.  

"Track & Field and Acrobatics & Tumbling have emerged as prominent and successful sports in the NCAA and Conference Carolinas. We believe student-athletes in these programs will add value to the overall mission of the college and 'The Fleet Way,'" Peeler said.  

"We are excited about getting coaches hired and recruiting quality student-athletes into new programs that can expand the culture of Erskine athletics and the
college as a whole."

Peeler also announced on Friday that Bass Fishing and Disc-Golf programs would be started at the club level in 2018-19, with the possibility of being added later to the athletic department umbrella.

With plans for the additional sport programs, Erskine anticipates fielding eighteen (18) intercollegiate athletics teams by 2019-20.

Anyone interested in being a part of these new programs is asked to contact Mark Peeler at mlp@erskine.edu.