In honor of National Student-Athlete day, Texas Wesleyan Athletics would like to highlight all the great moments of this past season. We've compiled 16 seeds filled with impressive and historic moments to find out which moment Ram nation thinks is the best.
Now that 'March Sadness' behind us, we're looking to spread a April Gladness by announcing the first-ever Texas Wesleyan greatest moments bracket game. So stay at home to save lives and vote for the best Ram moment of 2019-20.
Fans can vote on each matchup via twitter poll, and we'll pin the thread to our page so it's easy to find. Be sure and spread the news to the rest of the Ramily and head to twitter to vote on your favorite moment. Round 1 voting opens on Thursday, April 9 The voting period for round 1 will be open for 72 hours. Round 2 voting will open on Monday, April 13th. Round 3 (Top 4) voting opens on Friday, April 17, and championship matchup voting will open on Tuesday, April 21. We will crown a champion on Friday, April 24th. All rounds will open and close at 5 p.m
Visit this page for a link to the twitter poll when voting starts. Use the link provided or click here. Happy voting!
Final Round match-up
Match-up #15
(1-seed) WSOC – (10/24/2019) Lady Rams upset No. 6 John Brown 2-1 in freezing rain on neutral ground/Grosvenor crushes 16-yr old career goals record (11/5/2019) and breaks single season goals record (11/9/2019).
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(3-seed) Men's Wrestling – (2/22/2020) Drake McKee wins 165-lb. SAC/KCAC bracket, he and Kobe Nelms qualify for nationals in the program's first year of competition.
Below, we provide details of each moment.
All Pairings
Clifton McNeely Bracket
(1-seed) VB – (12/5/2019) Lady Rams make epic comeback over Huston-Tillotson in the opening round of the 2019 NAIA Women's Volleyball National Tournament, go on to record first win at final site since 2005. The team moved to No. 24 in the post-season NAIA Top 25 poll.
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(4-seed) MGolf – (2/25/2020)
Tyron Davidowitz wins back-to-back tournaments with including a 2-hole playoff win at TPC San Antonio. The defending champs were looking to repeat as national champions before the season was suspended.
(2-seed) WBB – (1/18/2020, 2/15/2020) 4-year standout
Nicole Gleason becomes the 14th member of the 1,000-points club and climbed to eighth on the all-time scorer's list with 1,197 career points. She also set the career 3-pt made record at 264 this season.
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(3-seed) Men's Wrestling – (2/22/2020) Drake McKee wins 165-lb. SAC/KCAC bracket, he and
Kobe Nelms qualify for nationals in the program's first year of competition.
Gene & Ann Burge Bracket
(1-seed) WSOC – (10/24/2019) Lady Rams upset No. 6 John Brown 2-1 in freezing rain on neutral ground/Grosvenor crushes 16-yr old career goals record (11/5/2019) and breaks single season goals record (11/9/2019).
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(4-seed) WTennis – (2/28/2020)
Aurora Novati defeats 10th ranked Angela Charles-Alfred of Xavier 7-7(5), 3-6, 10-7. Novati's upset win is the biggest win for the program since its revival in 2015-16.
(2-seed) MBB – (2/25/2020, 2/27/2020) The 23rd ranked Rams win back-to-back games over ranked opponents, dropping No. 13 SAGU 92-87 and No. 9 John Brown 69-56 ahead of sixth national tournament appearance this decade.
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(3-seed) MT&F – (3/7/2020) Charles Dorsett becomes the first freshman All-American in program history after qualifying for nationals in the 800 meter run. He finished fourth at the national meet with a time of 1:54.77.
Willa Gipson Bracket
(1-seed) TXWES Athletic Trainers – undefeated in superior support with preventative care and injury repair of Ram student-athletes
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(4-seed) WXC – (11/22/2020)
Melissa Gonzalez becomes first runner in school history to compete at the NAIA Women's Cross Country National Championships in each year of her career.
(2-seed) Table Tennis – The dynasty continues as both the men's and women's teams qualify for the 2019-20 national championships. The program has won 73 team and individual titles since its inception in 2001. Since 2004, the Coed/Men's team has won 14 titles. Since women's team titles were added in 2006, the Lady Rams have won 9 tiles.
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(3-seed) BB – (2/16/2020) Rams sweep No. 7 Bellevue,
Gabriel Sequeira posts 16 strikeouts in 7 innings – just 3 shy of the program record set in 1972. He led the nation with 82 K's in eight appearances in 2020, on-pace to set the school's single season strikeout record of 265, also set in 1972.
O.D. Bounds Bracket
(1-seed) FB – (10/5/2019) The Rams win in triple-OT over SAGU, 52-44 before rumbling to 37-pt blowout win over Texas College, 61-24 on Homecoming (10/19/2019).
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(4-seed) SB – (2/25/2020) Lady Rams give HC
Shannon Gower career win 400 in a 10-2 win over Southwestern Christian in the conference opener.
(2-seed) WGolf – (3/8/2020) Lady Rams win two consecutive tournaments as a team and individually, and post three wins in 2019-20 (most since 17-18) with four events remaining before play was suspended. The 19th ranked Lady Rams were set to compete at the national tournament for the sixth consecutive year before play was suspended.
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(3-seed) Women's Wrestling – (2/29/2020)
Madison Brown wins the 101-lb. SAC/KCAC bracket. Brown, along with
Aylen Vivar,
Alexandra Magana and
Clarissa Archuleta qualify for NAIA national invitational in the program's first year of competition.
