After a spring athletic season that saw three teams qualify for national tournaments, Central Alabama hopes that athletics only continue establish and flourish throughout the Alabama Community College Conference.
“Coming in as someone who had never been an athletic director, it was important for me to evaluate the coaching staffs and where I saw the programs going,” CACC athletic director and head baseball coach Wynn Fletcher said. “I knew very quickly that the people who were here before me had hired great people to lead our athletes; much of the credit should go to them.”
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