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Athletics
Warren Wilson has varsity teams for both men and women in mountain biking, cyclocross, road cycling, basketball, soccer, swimming, and cross country. The college also has club teams for timber sports and paddling. All varsity teams except cycling and swimming compete under the United States Collegiate Athletics Association (USCAA), while cycling and swimming compete under USA Cycling (USAC) and the Appalachian Swim Conference respectively. At one point, the college also had football and baseball teams, although they have not existed for multiple decades.

History
Sam DeVries, the namesake of DeVries Gym, was the first athletic director and was at the school for 42 years. He also coached the football, basketball, and baseball teams. The creation dates of the basketball, football, and baseball teams is unknown. Soccer was started in the 1960's by Sam Millar and Dr. William Klein.

Major Titles
The mountain biking team finished on the podium at collegiate national championships until 2016, when they won the team omnium in Varsity Division II. In 2017 they finished fourth, for a 16th consecutive year on the podium. Although the mountain biking team was formed in the 1990's, the road and cyclocross teams were not added until much later, not competing in at the national championship level until the 2013-14 and 2014-15 academic years respectively. In 2016, the cyclocross team placed 4th in the DII team omnium at nationals and 3rd in the team relay.

The men's basketball team won the USCAA DII national title in 2013.

The women's cross country team won the USCAA national title in 2000.

Residence halls
The campus maintains 16 residence halls of varying layouts and capacities.


 * The EcoDorm was the first college dorm to be certified as LEED Platinum in 2009 in the category of Existing Buildings, and features an active permaculture garden.
 * Sage Hall has the student-run coffeehouse, Sage Cafe, located in the lower level which provides a space for bands, open mics, studying, and food. It is an all male identifying dorm.
 * Stephenson is located adjacent to Sage around Sage circle and is an all female identifying dorm.
 * Dorland is the third dorm in Sage Circle proper. It closed in Fall of 2017 for renovations. A time has not been slated for these to begin.
 * The Schafers are one of the two suite-style dorms on campus. There are three buildings (A, B, and C) located around a small quad. Each building has four suites that house eight students each, as well as one RA apartment. Each suite has four rooms, a common space, and a bathroom with two showers, stalls, and sinks. The shared common area for the building has a kitchen.
 * The Villages are the other suite-style dorms. Each suite/apartment houses 4-6 students and has its own kitchen and bathroom. Apartments are connected by breezeways rather than an indoor common space. There are two buildings (A and B). The Villages are the furthest dorms from the rest of campus, located alone past the Kittredge parking lot.
 * Sunderland Hall is one of three First Year residence halls and the largest on campus, holding 134 students.
 * Asheville Normal Teacher's College (ANTC) and Sutton are the other two First Year residence halls as of Fall of 2017. Previously they were upperclassman dorms. Sutton has some housing specifically for freshman who have taken gap year(s).
 * Wellness Dorm is one of the dorms in the Ballfields. It is "values based" housing for students who wish to live a substance free lifestyle.
 * Korevec and Elmslie are Ballfield A and B, located between Wellness and EcoDorm. They are traditional dorm housing, with three floors of rooms, each housing two students. Halls have common bathrooms and kitchens.
 * The Vinings were freshman housing until fall of 2017. Vining B is currently closed and Vining A is medical singles.
 * Shepard House is the only co-op style housing on campus. The residents receive a collective food stipend and have weekly family dinners as well as sharing house chores.
 * Preston House was previously a second co-op style house, situated among the staff houses. Punk shows and other musical events were regularly hosted in its living room. It was condemned as structurally unsound and closed after the 2014-15 academic year. It was demolished via a controlled burn in 2016.

Service
Previously, Warren Wilson required that students complete 100 hours of community service over the course of 4 years. Beginning in 2012, however, incoming students had new requirements under the Community Engagement Commitment called PEGs, or Points of Engagement and Growth. In PEG 1, students must complete 25 hours of service in any issue area. This is generally completed in freshman year. PEG 2 consists of 25 hours in a specific issue area, such as food security. PEG 3 requires 50 hours in a leadership position within a specific issue area (this does not have to be the same as PEG 2). This often takes the form of an internship or leading a break service trip. PEG 4 is reflecting on your service experience and can be done via a group reflection or an essay.

Campus life
The Old Farmer's Ball hosts weekly contra dances providing the students and the community with old-time music and dancing, and an ever changing line-up of musicians.

There are two dining halls on campus: Gladfelter and Cowpie. Gladfelter is a standard dining hall run by Sodexo, while Cowpie serves all vegan and vegetarian dishes. It works with Sodexo but is largely run by students who work under a full time supervisor. Both dining halls use produce and meat from the college garden and farm, although Cowpie uses this more extensively.

The Student Government Association (SGA) meets weekly and discusses various topics relevant to the student body. President Lynn M. Morton has attended two meetings in her first semester. There are also community meetings that occur with varying regularity. Beginning in the spring semester 2018, the college is introducing "deliberative dialogues," which are facilitated discussions on topics that are potentially difficult to have balanced conversations about.

History


Warren Wilson College went through many phases before becoming what it is today. Its property, situated along the Swannanoa River, was purchased in 1893 by the Women's Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church, which was concerned that many Americans in isolated areas were not receiving a proper education and decided to establish church-supported schools in impoverished areas. On November 30, 1894, the Asheville Farm School officially opened on 420 acres, with 25 students attending. A professional staff of three offering the first three grades of elementary instruction.

In 1923, the school graduated its first high school class, and the first post-high school programs offering vocational training began in 1936. In 1942, the Asheville Farm School merged with the Dorland-Bell School in Hot Springs, North Carolina, to become a coed secondary school, named Warren H. Wilson Vocational Junior College and Associated Schools, after the late Warren H. Wilson, former superintendent of the Presbyterian Church's Department of Church and Country Life. Wilson's name is also on a Presbyterian church started at the school in 1925 so students and teachers would no longer have to walk three miles to Riceville. After World War II, the public education system in North Carolina improved dramatically and the need for the high school diminished, with the last high school class there graduating in 1957. In 1952, the college became one of the first in the South to desegregate, when it invited Alma Shippy, an African American from Swannanoa, North Carolina, to attend. Sunderland dorm residents voted 54-1 to allow Shippy to become a student and live in their dorm. In contrast to its original student population of underprivileged mountain youth, Warren Wilson now enrolls students of many different geographic and socioeconomic backgrounds. Warren Wilson College was a junior college until 1967, when it became a four-year college offering six majors. In 1972, the National Board of Missions deeded the WWC property over to the college's Board of Trustees.

Steven L. Solnick, formerly the Ford Foundation representative in Moscow, then in New Delhi, became the College's seventh president in 2012. He announced his resignation in October 2016 and his final day was June 30, 2017. He now leads The Calhoun School in New York. The eighth president, Dr. Lynn Morton, is the first female president in the college's history. She is a native North Carolinian and was formerly provost and vice president of academic affairs at Queens University in Charlotte, NC.

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Major results
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 * 2006
 * 8th Overall Tour of the Bahamas


 * 2007
 * 7th Univest Grand Prix
 * 1st Jersey white.svg Youth classification


 * 2008
 * 1st Mount Washington Hillclimb


 * 2009
 * 1st Mount Washington Hillclimb


 * 2010
 * 2nd Overall Tour de Taiwan


 * 2011
 * 6th Overall Tour de Beauce
 * 8th Overall Cascade Cycling Classic


 * 2012
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Redlands Bicycle Classic
 * 1st Stage 1 (ITT)
 * 4th Overall Cascade Cycling Classic


 * 2013
 * 2nd Overall Tour of the Gila
 * 6th Overall Cascade Cycling Classic
 * 1st Stage 1


 * 2014
 * 2nd Overall Tour de San Luis
 * 1st Stage 1


 * 2015
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Redlands Bicycle Classic


 * 2017
 * 1st Mount Washington Hillclimb