This Week in Wake Forest Women’s Athletics – Presented by Truist (Feb. 24-March 2)
2/25/2025 12:23:00 PM | Field Hockey, General, Women's Golf, Women's Soccer, Women's Tennis, Women's Track and Field, Women's Volleyball
This weekly feature is brought to you by Truist - The Presenting Partner of Wake Forest Women’s Athletics.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Truist, a longstanding partner of Wake Forest University who is An Official Banking Partner of Wake Forest Athletics and the Presenting Partner of Wake Forest Women's Athletics brings Deacon Nation this weekly update from the Demon Deacons women's programs:
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About Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University is known for its distinctive combination of world-class academics, unrivaled campus experience, intimate learning environment and Power 4 athletics in a top-growing metro market. A Charter member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Demon Deacons have won 59 conference titles and are one of 10 ACC schools to win 10 or more national championships, along with Notre Dame, North Carolina, Virginia, Duke, Syracuse and Florida State. Additionally, Wake Forest anchors the Winston-Salem and Triad market, which includes 1.3M residents and was ranked as ESPN's seventh-best market from a viewership perspective.
Wake Forest's comprehensive excellence includes its highly regarded school of medicine, business school, law school and an innovative department of engineering. Additionally, Wake Forest has campuses across Winston-Salem, Charlotte and Washington, DC – providing many academic offerings to students from across the nation and around the world.
Learn more about Wake Forest University at www.wfu.edu and at GoDeacs.com.
- Track & Field:
- The Wake Forest track & field team will compete in the ACC Indoor Championships this weekend from March 1-3 in Louisville, Ky.
- Robbie Grace heads into the weekend with the program-record for the long jump (6.37m).
- After ACC's, the squad will turn its attention to the NCAA Indoor Championships, which will take place in Virginia Beach, Va. from March 14-15.
- The Wake Forest track & field team will compete in the ACC Indoor Championships this weekend from March 1-3 in Louisville, Ky.
- Women's Tennis:
- The Demon Deacons closed out their final weekend of non-conference play with two 7-0 sweeps against both Navy and William & Mary.
- Following their wins against Navy and William & Mary, the Demon Deacons jumped up 10 spots in the ITA rankings, landing at No. 29 in the latest poll.
- The Deacs are one of 11 teams in the ACC in the top-50 of the ITA's team rankings. Wake Forest is also one of just four teams in the ACC with double-digit wins on the season thus far.
- Wake Forest opens up their ACC schedule with a road trip to the Midwest to take on No. 24 Notre Dame and Louisville.
- The Deacs open conference play in a top-25 matchup against the Fighting Irish on Friday, with first serve slated for 4 p.m.
- The Demon Deacons will then close out their six-match road stretch against Louisville on Sunday at noon.
- Women's Basketball:
- The Wake Forest women's basketball team split the week with a victory coming at home against SMU on Thursday night during the annual Play4Kay Pink Game.
- The Deacs held the Mustangs leading scorer in junior guard Nya Robertson to just six points in the game, her second-lowest scoring output of the season and just the second time all season she had finished with single-digit points. Robertson was just 3-of-12 from the field and 0-of-5 from behind the arc.
- In addition to senior Elise Williams' game-high and season-high 20 points, she also led the team with six rebounds and four assists. It marked the senior's seventh-career game with 20-or-more points and first of the season. She was efficient, shooting 7-of-10 from the field, going 1-of-1 from three and 5-of-6 from the line.
- On Sunday, the Demon Deacons played a tightly contested game at Miami that came down to the final seconds.
- Sophomore guard Rylie Theuerkauf led the charge for Wake Forest as she finished with 18 points on 7-of-14 from the floor in addition to a block and two steals on the other end. It marked her 10th-consecutive game scoring in double figures and 18th time doing so this season.
- The senior duo of forward Demeara Hinds and guard Elise Williams also chipped in double-digit points with 12 and 10, respectively. Hinds finished an efficient 5-of-9 from the floor and led the team with seven rebounds.
- The Deacs wrap up regular season play this week as they travel to No. 9 NC State on Thursday before returning home for Senior & Graduates Day against Pitt on Sunday afternoon.
- The Wake Forest women's basketball team split the week with a victory coming at home against SMU on Thursday night during the annual Play4Kay Pink Game.
- Women's Golf:
- Fresh off a second-place finish at the Moon Golf Invitational, No. 9 Wake Forest women's golf heads to Hilton Head, S.C. for the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate.
- Last time out at the Darius Rucker, the Deacs finished T10 and saw then-freshman Macy Pate with a top-ten individual finish.
- Field Hockey:
- Sophomore Mia Schoenbeck and alumna Brooke McCusker are both competing at the 2025 FIH Nations Cup with Schoenbeck representing the United States and McCusker suiting up for Team Canada.
- Schoenbeck and the USA squad took a 2-0 victory over Canada on Sunday evening and continued pool play against Japan.
- McCusker and Team Canada will look to rebound against host Chile on Wednesday, before closing pool play against Japan.
- Sophomore Mia Schoenbeck and alumna Brooke McCusker are both competing at the 2025 FIH Nations Cup with Schoenbeck representing the United States and McCusker suiting up for Team Canada.
- Volleyball:
- Demon Deacons head volleyball coach Jeff Hulsmeyer recently announced the addition of Sherisa Livingston as an assistant coach.
- Bringing over a decade of experience to Winston-Salem, Livingston comes from Charlotte, where she was an assistant coach before being named the interim head coach in November. From 2020-23, Livingston led Radford's volleyball program and she was also the head coach at Antelope Valley for two years after launching the volleyball program in 2015.
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About Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University is known for its distinctive combination of world-class academics, unrivaled campus experience, intimate learning environment and Power 4 athletics in a top-growing metro market. A Charter member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Demon Deacons have won 59 conference titles and are one of 10 ACC schools to win 10 or more national championships, along with Notre Dame, North Carolina, Virginia, Duke, Syracuse and Florida State. Additionally, Wake Forest anchors the Winston-Salem and Triad market, which includes 1.3M residents and was ranked as ESPN's seventh-best market from a viewership perspective.
Wake Forest's comprehensive excellence includes its highly regarded school of medicine, business school, law school and an innovative department of engineering. Additionally, Wake Forest has campuses across Winston-Salem, Charlotte and Washington, DC – providing many academic offerings to students from across the nation and around the world.
Learn more about Wake Forest University at www.wfu.edu and at GoDeacs.com.
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