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104 athletes were named to the Spring Academic All-Big Ten Team, up from 83 in the spring 2009 semester.The men's and women's track and field team combined had 44 athletes honors. To be eligible for this honor, the student-athletes must be letterwinners in their second academic year and have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher. 1,037 athletes were honored by the Big Ten for the spring semester.
Molly Beckwith was named the Women's track athlete of the year for the Great Lakes Region, and Derek Drouin was named the Men's Field Athlete of the year for the Great Lakes Region as well.
Both Nate Everhart (Wrestling) and Sarah Pease (Cross Country) have been named the Big Ten's Outstanding Sportsmanship Award winners for the 2009-2010 year. Twenty-two athletes in the Big Ten were selected, out of a pool of 276 student-athletes.
Wendi Robinson and Sarah Pease have both earned ESPN the Magazine Academic awards. Robinson was named to the All-District first team, while Pease was named to the second team. Robinson is also a nominee for Academic All-America honors.
Per IU:
On Saturday, Beth Wood, an IU journalism professor who died in November 2009, will be honored through an American Lung Association Lung Walk in Carmel, Ind. The walk will raise money for the 35 million people currently suffering from chronic lung disease in the United States.
The IU women’s basketball team recently signed 5-foot-8 point guard Alisha Goodwin from Jefferson College. Goodwin previously played at Jefferson College, where she averaged 12.9 points a game. Jefferson College made it to the NJCAA Championships in the 2009-10 season but lost to the Gulf Coast Community College Commodores 83-61.
Former assistant coach Jose Mori has been promoted to Associate Head Coach, after being in her prior position for three seasons.
David Erdy and Alex Martin were named to the All-Midwest Region squad. 153 total players were recognized.
ESPN's Adam Rittenberg recently ranked the Big Ten's most irreplaceable players, and picked Ben Chappell for Indiana. This is what Rittenberg said about Chappell: History shows that for Indiana to have a chance at a bowl game, it needs to put up a lot of points.
Some final quotes from the field on their day (both good and bad):
Andretti, who in the first final standings was not listed in third place because of the confusion with the wreck and caution. He argued and officials took another look at the video and ruled that Andretti did in fact finish in third.
On how his car was so good on race day:
THE MODERATOR: It was a whacky day, but you had the dominant car all day long. In the end, it looked like justice. Tell us about it.
Here is the final finishing order for the 2010 Indianapolis 500:
The night before the Indianapolis 500 Dario Franchitti dreamed of the race and Tony Kanaan. He dreamed that him and Kanaan would go head to head for the win at the fabled Indianapolis Motor Speedway. And when Franchitti saw Kanaan, who started in 33rd place, creep up to second place behind him, he thought his nightmare was coming true. “I thought, ‘I knew it,’ Franchitti said. However Franchitti didn’t let his dream intimidate him as he focused on both moving away from Kanaan and saving as much fuel as possible. Kanaan was forced to pit due to lack of fuel, which Franchitti said took the pressure off of him. “Until he pitted, I never took my eye off him because he can always surprise you,” Franchitti said. “He didn't get the result that he deserved, but to have gone from last to second was cool.” However, Franchitti and Kanaan were never expected to be competing in the end of the race or at any logical point, as the two started thirty positions apart. Instead much of the pre-race hype was about three-time winner Helio Castroneves. Castroneves won everything—the pole and the pit crew challenge—except the one that mattered after 200 laps on the excruciatingly hot track. After being pegged the favorite by many, the sheer dominance that Franchitti, and not Castroneves, displayed was unexpected. “What an awesome car he (Franchitti) had,” Castroneves said. “Ganassi (Chip) did an incredible job to put him up there. It was the car to beat today. We tried.” “Unfortunately, silly mistakes put us in the back.” Franchitti was indeed the car to beat as he led 155 of the 200 laps en route to his second Indianapolis 500 victory. In the past several years the driver leading the most laps has failed to win the race, as fellow Target Chip Ganassi teammate, Scott Dixon, led the most laps in both 2008 and 2009, failing to win either race. The last time a winning driver led more laps was in 2000, when Juan Pablo Montoya led 167 laps. Target Chip Ganassi Racing drivers have led the most laps in the last three Indianapolis 500 races. Franchitti also is now ranked 21st on the all-time lap list. Prior to the race he was ranked 59th. With his second Indianapolis 500 victory, Franchitti becomes the 17th driver to kiss the bricks at least twice. He also is the first driver from Scotland to win the race duplicate times. Another record was also set with Franchitti’s victory on Sunday, as Chip Ganassi hit a unique milestone. Ganassi became the first owner to win both the Daytona 500, under driver Jamie McMurray, and the Indianapolis 500 in the same year. However, even though this accomplishment is extraordinary, Ganassi has remained humble about his success in the racing world. “I didn't drive either car. I didn't change any tires. I didn't put any fuel in the cars,” Ganassi said. “I don't do any of that stuff. I have hundreds of people that do that kind of thing. I'm very, very lucky is what it comes down to. I'm very lucky.” ?“I'm just the guy that gets my name on the door, the sign in the front. But it's a lot of hard work by a lot of people, a lot of people that never get the attention they should.”The victory gave Ganassi his fourth overall Indianapolis 500 win as an owner, with two coming from Franchitti. While only 16 other drivers have managed to accomplish the feat Franchitti did on Sunday, he feels that it does not place him among the great drivers of the past. “Those guys are legends. I said the other night, ‘I'm just a driver, those guys are legends,’ Franchitti said. “I'm so lucky to be driving for Chip and Team Target, getting in good cars, especially having gone away after we won in '07. To be invited back was pretty cool. To have won a championship and an Indy 500, I didn't expect any of this…I expected to be retired by the time I was 35. “This is all a bonus and it's pretty cool.”
Several celebrities are here for the race, and they all had great things to say about the event:
The 2010 Indianapolis 500 will start today at 1 p.m. The "Greatest spectacle in racing" is the 6th race of the IZOD Indy Car Series schedule. They race 17 races overall.
Both Andrew Poore and Ben Hubers qualified for the NCAA National Championships in the 5,000m.
The 3000m steeplechase was moved to this morning after bad weather last night. De'Sean Turner and Sarah Pease both won their heats to qualify for the national meet.
