Wildcat Wrap: Arizona swimming and diving hires assistant coach Roric Fink

Editor’s word: With a number of sports activities happening this fall, Wildcat Wrap serves as a weekly recap that focuses on the Arizona applications that we shouldn’t have the time to cowl regularly however are definitely worthy of recognition.

Arizona swimming and diving has employed Roric Fink as an assistant coach, Wildcats head coach Augie Busch introduced this week.

Fink beforehand served as a UA assistant coach from 2003-10 below former head coach Frank Busch. Fink additionally coached at Ford Aquatics in Tucson from 2000-03. Whereas at Ford Aquatics, Fink helped develop Lacey Nymeyer, Dave Rollins, Tyler DeBerry, and Marcus Titus, all of whom went on to win NCAA Nationwide Championships with Arizona.

Largely just lately Fink was an assistant coach at SMU and earlier than that affiliate coach at Texas for eight years.

“I’m excited to return to Tucson and the College of Arizona,” Fink mentioned. “Tucson is an incredible place to dwell. I do know the teaching workers effectively and am excited to have a possibility to work with them at Arizona. After all, the student-athletes are what make this program tick and I’ve been overwhelmed with how welcoming they’ve been earlier than I even arrive in Tucson. Bear Down!”

Males’s and girls’s golf

A pair of Arizona Wildcats golfers — one former, one present — made headlines up to now week.

Trevor Werbylo formally earned his PGA Tour card by ending within the prime 25 of the Korn Ferry Tour, the PGA’s developmental tour. Werbylo will likely be eligible to compete for PGA Tour occasions starting with subsequent month’s Fortinet Championship.

A Tucson native, Werbylo had three prime 10 finishes and one win on the Korn Ferry Tour.

Werbylo competed for Arizona from 2017-21 and was a key member of the Wildcats’ 2021 Pac-12 championship crew.

Earlier this week Gile Chunk Starkute gained the Arizona Ladies’s Novice Stroke Play competitors, taking pictures 67-75-69 over three rounds.

Starkute, a rising senior, was named a WGCA All-American Scholar Crew honoree final season.

Cross nation

Cross nation season is quick approaching. This system’s 2022 schedule is predicted to be launched Friday.