Salisbury University
Salisbury University
Salisbury University, located on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, is a regionally accredited, four-year comprehensive university offering 55 distinct undergraduate and graduate degree programs. SU students, over 7,800 strong, hail from 40 states and 59 foreign countries. Salisbury's campus is in an attractive, residential neighborhood of stately homes on sculpted lawns, less than one-half mile from the banks of the Wicomico River. The campus includes 45 buildings on over 145 landscaped acres.
SU participates in NCAA Division III intercollegiate athletics. The Sea Gull teams are highly competitive, routinely claiming the conference championships, and in recent years, the field hockey and men's lacrosse teams have captured NCAA Division III national championships. In addition to stressing sportsmanship and physical excellence, Salisbury's scholar-athletes are routinely honored for their academic success.
In addition to the football team's membership in the ACFC and ECAC, Salisbury's other 18 varsity sports participate in the Capital Athletic Conference as the men's and women's indoor track and field teams are members of the Mason-Dixon conference. The Sea Gulls captured the conference All-Sports Award, given annually to the top all-around athletic program in the conference over the course of one academic year, for a fourth straight time and seventh overall since joining the conference in 1994-95. Salisbury University is also recognized as one of the top athletic programs in Division III as the maroon and gold are routinely in the top 25 of the final standings for the NACDA Directors' Cup. The Sea Gulls placed 23rd overall in the 2008-09 standings.
Salisbury's football program originated in 1972 and since then the Sea Gulls have posted a 207-154-4 overall record in 37 seasons. The Sea Gulls have made six trips to the NCAA tournament including an appearance in the 1986 Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl, the NCAA Division III national championship game. The Gulls also have made four trips to the ECAC postseason where the maroon and gold won the 2005 ECAC Southeast Bowl, 2006 ECAC South Atlantic Bowl and 2008 ECAC Southwest Bowl championships. SU is one of the original members of the ACFC, since 1998, and has won two conference titles in 2004 and 2005.
Sherman Wood enters his 12th season as the head coach of the Salisbury University football program. Coach Wood is the all-time winningest coach in program history with a combined 69-35 record through ten seasons. Coach Wood led the Sea Gulls to their seventh straight winning-season in 2008. Wood, a 1984 graduate, played defensive back for SU for four seasons and was on SU's first NCAA team in 1983.
Quick Facts
Location: Salisbury, MD
Founded: 1925
Enrollment: 7,800
President: Dr. Janet Dudley-Eshbach
Colors: Maroon & Gold
Nickname: Sea Gulls
Stadium: Sea Gull (2,500)
2009 Record: 5-6, 2-1
Web Page: www.salisbury.edu
Address: 1101 Camden Ave.
Salisbury, MD 21801
Phone Numbers
(all area codes are 410)
Athletic Director, Michael Vienna: 548-3503
Head Coach, Sherman Wood: 543-6356
Sports Information Director, Tim Brennan: 543-6016
Sports Information Fax: 677-0208