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WAKE FOREST FINDS ITS NICHE

When coach Tom Walter first sat down with his retiring Wake Forest athletic director Ron Wellman to discuss the possibility of adding a pitching laboratory for the program, Wellman was direct in his assessment.

“All of our sports programs at Wake Forest need to have something that separates them or establishes a niche,” Walter recalled Wellman saying.

Wake Forest now has a one-of-a-kind college pitching lab for injury prevention and performance enhancement as part of the $12 million Hurd Player Development Center at Couch Ballpark.

Work in the lab already is paying dividends. Morgan

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