MILLIGAN COLLEGE, TN (April 26, 2007) --- Dobyns-Bennett High School’s Greg Cathers signed with Milligan College to continue his swimming career on the collegiate level.

An All Big-6 swimmer, Cathers qualified for the state competition all three years as a member of the Indians’ team. He earned All Big-6 in the 50-yard and 100-yard freestyle events. Cathers holds career-best times of 22.67 in the 50-yard and a 50.17 in the 100-yard.

Cathers was coached by Jorge Blasini as a senior and by Nathan Love in his sophomore and junior seasons at Dobyns-Bennett.

The announcement of the newly formed Milligan swimming team took place on January 24 at a media event inside the Steve Lacy Fieldhouse. At the media event, Ron Goehring was named head coach of the team. Milligan formerly had a swimming club from 1977 to 1986 and competed against various club and intercollegiate squads.

He is the son of Kevin and Amy Cathers of Kingsport, Tenn. An AIM scholar, he plans to major in human performance and exercise science while at Milligan.