- 1997
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Demon Deacon Tim Duncan
During the 1995–96 NCAA season, the Wake Forest team lost Childress, who had graduated the previous season and entered the NBA. In Childress’s absence, Duncan led the team to a 12–4 record for their ACC season, and a 26–6 record overall. The Demon Deacons won the ACC Finals again, but in the Sweet 16, Duncan came down with the flu, ... -
Deacons Soccer Champs 2007
The most successful season in team history took place in 2007 when Wake Forest won the NCAA Division I Championship in a 2–1 decision over Ohio State. It marked the program’s only championship to date. During their championship run, the No. 2 seeded Deacons defeated Furman 1–0, No. 15 West Virginia 3–1, and No. 10 Notre Dame 2–1 in overtime ...
Wake Forest has won a total of nine national championships in five different sports; five of these championships have come since 2002. Wake Forest is sometimes referred to as being a part of "Tobacco Road" or "The Big Four", terms that refer to the four North Carolina schools that compete heatedly against each other within the ACC; these include Duke University, North Carolina, and North Carolina State, as well as Wake Forest.
Student attendance of Wake Forest football and basketball games was formerly high, in part due to the program known as "Screamin' Demons". At the beginning of each respective athletic season students on the Reynolda Campus can sign up for the program whereby they pay $15 for each season; in addition to the slightly better seats than the other students in football (not enforced) and seats behind the rim in basketball, this gets students a football shirt in the fall and a tie-dye T-shirt in the spring along with a card that serves as an automatic pass to the sporting events. They lose this privilege if they miss two of the games. Most students sign up because ticket distribution to non-Screamin' Demons is unreliable. Through the planning of Sports Marketing and the Screamin' Demons program, basketball game seats in the students section are difficult to attain without participating in the Screamin' Demons program. In 2011, sports marketing lowered the student allotment, and very few students currently attend.
College Sports Established
1888
Location
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
College Name
Wake Forest University
Collegiate History
1973 - Present / NCAA Division 1
1922 - 1973 / University Division of the NCAA
Conference History
1953 – Present / ACC Conference
1936 - 1953 / Southern Conference
Nickname
Demon Deacons - As a Baptist College in North Carolina, Wake Forest athletic teams were originally known as the “Baptists” or “The Old Gold and Black”, and they sported a tiger for a mascot. However, during the 1923 season, the editor of the school newspaper created the alliteration “Demon Deacons” to describe how the Baptists played in a major win over Duke, the impressive win against Trinity College (predecessor of Duke University) a newspaper reporter wrote that the Deacons "fought like Demons", giving rise to the current team name, the "Demon Deacons." Henry Belk, the school’s publicity director, liked the phrase and incorporated the nickname into his press releases. With the Baptists in the midst of their first winning season in 30 years, newspapers from around the country started to proclaim the success of the Demon Deacons, and the name stood.
NCAA Championships
Baseball 1
1955
Men's Basketball 0
Women's Basketball 0
Football 0
Soccer 1
2007
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