Today the Big Ten conference released their field hockey players to watch list. The Hoosiers are well represented by having three players included on this exclusive list.
Tuesday afternoon the Big Ten Coach's Poll rankings were released showing Indiana and Northwestern in the lead heading into the team's first regular season play this weekend. The Hoosiers spent this week preparing to take on St.
Dr. Jeff Huber, Indiana University head diving coach, announced today former USA diving head coach John Wingfield as the new IU assistant diving coach. A regular in the diving community, Wingfield has served with USA diving for 14 years and has held the position as the Director of the National Training Center since 2009.
Late this evening, former IU men's basketball recruit Ron Patterson announced via his Twitter account that he will be attending Brewster Academy in New Hampshire this upcoming year. Patterson ended up turning down several NCAA Division 1 programs that began courting him after he left the Hoosiers last week after failing to achieve academic benchmarks set by the University during his summer classes and was denied admission into IU. With his choice, Patterson still has the opportunity to play four years of D-1 basketball in the NCAA even after lacing it up in New Hampshire, meaning the Indianapolis-native could theoretically come back to IU for the 2013-14 season with four years of college basketball yet to play. This, though, is an unlikely situation because, like leading up to this season, the Hoosiers have already given out one more scholarship than allowed by the NCAA, and giving Patterson a scholarship a year from now would mean IU Coach Tom Crean would either have to cut ties with two players or ask them to pay their own way.
For the first time since 2009, an IU women's soccer player has been selected as the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week, according to a press release.
The Indiana University diving team competed in the AT&T USA Diving National Championships this past week at Greensboro, N.C. Senior Amy Cozad held first place heading into the final round of the competition with a score of 338.40 points.
The Indiana University field hockey team completed their exhibition play this Sunday, defeating the Miami (OH) Redhawks 4-2.
Following Wednesday's IU Football practice, IDS football beat writer Jordan Littman had the chance to sit down with linebacker Chase Hoobler, entering the 2012 season as the top returner at his position.
Following the appearance of a gay slur on newly hired assistant wrestling coach Nick Simmons' Twitter page, both the Athletic Department and the Division of Student Affairs in the Office of the Dean of Students will investigate the incident. At roughly 1 a.m.
On August 15th, 2010, Ron Patterson, an athletic 6-foot-3 junior from Broad Ripple High School, committed to IU as the second member of 2012 men's basketball recruiting class.
Ron Patterson and his family issued a statement today regarding his recent departure from IU: "It is with disappointment that I won't be a part of the Indiana men's basketball program.
Ron Patterson, a member of IU's 2012 basketball recruiting class, will transfer from IU and not suit up for the Hoosiers this season. Chris Hawkins, one of Patterson's coaches with the AAU team Indiana Elite, said Patterson will not play due to an academic issue. Patterson is exploring a number of possibilities, including attending a preparatory school for a year or transferring to another four-year university.
Sophomore Eriq Zavaleta has a lot to look forward to this season. Coincidentally, he has many expectations to live up to as well. Coming off of a spectacular freshman breakout season, the Westfield, Ind.
Matte impressed with offensive line play For the 2012 season, IU's offensive line will only have two upperclassmen on it's entire roster. Leading the young core of linemen will be senior center Will Matte, who is one of the 51 players in the entire nation on the Rimington Trophy Watch List heading into this season, an award given annually to the country's best center. Following Saturday's practice scrimmage, Matte had encouraging words to say about the younger players on IU's roster. "I think just in the O-Line room, all of the freshmen are really pretty talented, smart kids," Matte said.
The Big Ten Network has announced they will televise 15 field hockey games this season, which is the most to date. The IU field hockey team is one of the beneficiaries of this move, with at least three games receiving BTN coverage.
About one week ago, Ben Davis (Ind.) High School safety Antonio Allen rescinded his commitment from Ole Miss. Thursday afternoon, the Rivals250 senior pledged to IU, joining tailback Myles Graham as the newest commitments to the Hoosiers program in the past 24 hours. Allen is rated as the 200th best prospect in the nation according to Rivals.com, and the fourth best prospect in the state of Indiana.
Chaminade Madonna (Fla.) College Preparatory running back Myles Graham has committed to Indiana, becoming the sixth pledge for IU's 2013 recruiting class. Graham, a 5-foot-11 and 190-pound high school senior, is a two-star prospect according to Rivals.
IU junior high jumper and 2012 NCAA runner up Derek Drouin can one more accolade to his name: Olympic Medalist. Drouin jumped for a bronze medal Tuesday afternoon at the 2012 London Olympics, clearing 2.29 meters (7'6") before failing to jump over the 2.33 meter-mark. Along with Qatar's Mutaz Essa Barshim and Great Britain's Robert Grabarz, Drouin cleared each of his first three heights (2.20, 2.25, 2.29) with zero misses, putting the trio in a tie for first place. After only Kansas State senior and 2012 NCAA Champion Erik Kynard and Russian Ivan Ukhov cleared the 2.33 meter (7'7\0xBE") mark, the trio failed to clear that height after their three jumps. That put them into a tie for third place and bronze medal position.
Wilson looks for improvement from wide receivers When asked about what he is seeing out of his receiving corps after the first five days of Fall practice, IU Coach Kevin Wilson responded with quite a critical remark. "Not very much," Wilson said.
Wilson looks to Houston for leadership Junior running back Stephen Houston says he has changed a lot since his arrival at IU from Independence (Kan.) Community College last July. "I can honestly say with 99.9 percent certainty that the grumbling and moaning is gone.
