BG News, Bowling Green State University, OH
3 days ago
The Falcons' starting quarterback, Tyler Sheehan, who threw for over 3,000 yards and 23 touchdowns last year, shows the BG News how to properly throw a football.
Photos by John Lopez | Reporter
The Parthenon, Marshall University, WV
1 day ago by Marlowe Hereford
Tournament runs did not put an end to baseball for four players on the Herd roster.
Rising seniors Nate Lape and Adam Yeager are playing with the Brewster Whitecaps of the Cape Cod Baseball League in Brewster, Ma. Sophomores Chad Johnson and Ian Kadish are members of the Vienna Senators of the Clark Griffith League in Vienna, Va.
The Daily Eastern News, Eastern Illinois University, IL
2 days ago by Molly Clutter/Sports Editor
During the summer, athletic trainers are still at work. Some athletic trainers stick around Charleston to help the athletes who stay over the summer, and other trainers get internships with high-profiled National Football League teams.
According to Associate Athletic Director Mark Bonnstetter, about four to five students have gotten internships with NFL teams over the last several years.
The Daily Eastern News, Eastern Illinois University, IL
2 days ago by Bob Bajek/Sports Reporter
After swimming graduate assistant Matt Bos finished his master's degree at Eastern in 2002, he went overseas to coach in New Zealand. Since then, he has trained Olympic caliber athletes and was coach on the rise. However, when long-time Eastern swim coach Ray Padovan retired, Bos was drawn back to his former school.
The Daily Eastern News, Eastern Illinois University, IL
2 days ago by Bob Bajek/Sports Reporter
Mary Wallace has been doing a balancing act between coaching women's track and field and working as senior women's administrator during the last three years.
By early July, the act concluded.
Wallace was hired as assistant athletic director, but had to give up her love of coaching in the process.
Ball State Daily News, Ball State University, IN
2 days ago by Ryan Wood
With the days of patrolling the Worthen Arena paint in her past, former women's basketball player Lisa Rusche wasn't willing to leave the Ball State athletics department just yet.
Rusche, who has helped design media guides and posters for the athletics department during the past year and a half, will work as a graduate assistant in the Cardinals' athletics communication office.
The Lantern, Ohio State, OH
2 days ago by Brad Hehmeyer
Since arriving on campus June 16, things have been quiet on the Terrelle Pryor front. This is a good thing. This means he is getting down to business and putting in a lot of time in the film and weight rooms. Remind you of anybody? How about 2006 Heisman Trophy Winner, Troy Smith.
The Parthenon, Marshall University, WV
2 days ago by Marlowe Hereford
Former Herd softball catcher Rachel Folden joined the Chicago Bandits in May, the same team U.S. Olympians Jennie Finch and Vicky Galindo play for.
In a May 27 interview by Andrew Phillips on chicagobandits.com, Folden said, "I'm looking forward to being able to call myself a professional athlete.
Ball State Daily News, Ball State University, IN
3 days ago by Ryan Wood
More than 15 months after hosting its first-ever Women's National Invitation Tournament game, Ball State University's women's basketball coach Kelly Packard accepted an invitation to participate in the preseason WNIT.
The Cardinals, who released the first piece of their schedule Tuesday, will play Indiana University in the first round of the 2008 preseason WNIT.
KY Kernel, University of Kentucky, KY
3 days ago
Track athlete, coach join Olympic team
UK track and field coach Erin Tucker and hurdler Mikel Thomas have been invited to the Olympics in Beijing, joining several other Wildcats.
Tucker, the assistant spring coach will join the Venezuelan Track and Field National Team as a guest coach for Jose Acevedo, a UK track member already dubbed for the Olympics.
KY Kernel, University of Kentucky, KY
3 days ago
KY Basketball Museum moves to campus
Kentucky Basketball Museum's board of directors and UK have decided to relocate the museum to an on-campus location this fall in an attempt to resolve the museum's financial debt.
The museum, which was housed in the Lexington Convention Center next to Rupp Arena, has received a $100,000 annual contribution from UK for the last several years, according to Rob Mullens, Deputy Director of Athletics at UK.
BG News, Bowling Green State University, OH
3 days ago by John Lopez
Avid BG sports fans may have noticed a "countdown to the big game" on the Bowling Green Athletic home page. But before the home opener versus Minnesota, which according to the "countdown" is 54 days, eight hours and six minutes away, coaches and players are gearing up for three weeks of training camp.
BG News, Bowling Green State University, OH
4 days ago by Gina Potthoff
Three former Bowling Green women's basketball stars are trying their hands at coaching.
Ali Mann, Liz Honegger and Megan Thorburn, all part of the senior class that took the Falcons to the first-ever Mid-American Conference team appearance in the NCAA Sweet 16, have landed coaching positions at three different levels of women's basketball.
The Lantern, Ohio State, OH
4 days ago by Brad Hehmeyer
Jim Tressel already has an impressive resume in his 22 seasons as a head coach including 208 career wins, nine national title game appearances, four Big Ten titles, seven bowl appearances, national championships in 1991, 1993, 1994, 1997 and 2002 and the 2002 NCAA Coach of the Year.
The Lantern, Ohio State, OH
5 days ago by David Sokol
It's coming. Brace yourselves. The 2008 Ohio State Buckeye football season is fast approaching with less than two months left until the season opener versus Youngstown State on Aug. 30. Although OSU has played many of the schools on its schedule in the past year, there are many unknowns about each and every team down the line.
Ball State Daily News, Ball State University, IN
6 days ago by Ryan Wood
The combination of losing two graduate assistants and a thinned communications branch of the Ball State athletics department left a couple sports lacking a sports information director this summer.
Those positions were filled last week from within the department when associate athletics director Joe Hernandez assigned the men's basketball and baseball programs to sports information director Matt McCollester.
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