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Will Sheehey at a media availability Thursday at Assembly Hall.
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Will Sheehey at a media availability Thursday at Assembly Hall.
Will Sheehey at a media availability Thursday at Assembly Hall.
Christian Watford speaks during a media availability Thursday at Assembly Hall.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Eighteen IU athletes will be inducted into the IU Athletics Hall of Fame 2011 class on Sept. 30.“I’m really excited about the class, and I’m excited about the opportunity that the varsity club took to add what we’re calling pioneer members,” said Fred Glass, IU vice president and director of intercollegiate athletics. “It seems like every year a lot of deserving people get passed over because there’s more of an emphasis on the contemporary...Maybe that will make this an extra special year.”Glass announced that the class includes six “contemporary” and 12 “pioneer” inductees. The 18 IU athletes will be inducted into the IU Hall of Fame’s 30th class, bringing the Hall of Fame roster to 188 Hoosiers.“It’s a very good sign of the healthy history and tradition of IU Athletics that after 30 years we still have way more deserving members than we can possibly put in the class,” Glass said. “I think that’s good. I think it’s good that our opportunities are fewer than are qualified people and we get to drag out fights into who ought to be in. It’s a reflection of having more worthy candidates than places to include them.”2011 InducteesContemporaries:James Sniadecki - Football, 1966-68Don Ritter - Basketball and baseball, 1947-49Kristen Kane - Diving, 1991-94Trent Green - Football, 1990-92Clarence Doninger - Athletic director, 1991-2001Ray Tolbert - Men's basketball, 1978-81Pioneers:Gene Thomas - IU's only four-sport letterman, Football, Baseball, Men's basketball and Track, 1920-23Dean Barnhart - Men's basketball, 1909-11Fred "Fritz" Bastian - Tennis, 1919-21Bryce Beecher - Track, 1929-32Eddie Belshaw - Wrestling, 1930-32George Belshaw - Wrestling, 1930-32Bob Jones - Football, 1931-32, Wrestling, 1932-33Rodney Leas - Cross Country, 1928-30Harlan Logan - Men's basketball, 1924-25, Tennis, 1924, Track, 1925Bill Menke - Men's baksetball, 1939-41Chris Traicoff - Wrestling, 1937-39Joe Zeller - Football, 1929-31, Men's basketball, 1930-32
Eighteen IU athletes will be inducted into the IU Athletics Hall of Fame 2011 class on Sept. 30.
A man chugs a bottle of vodka while sitting on the shoulders of another man Sept. 10 during the tailgate before the football game against University of Virginia.
IU won its first game in the Kevin Wilson era. Our football reporters, Alex McCarthy and Max McCombs, along with columnist Justin Albers, discuss the Hoosiers' victory, the 20 IU penalties and quarterback Edward Wright-Baker.
On the current IU roster, five former high schools are represented by at least two or more current IU soccer players.
Kevin Wilson IU Football coach
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Four months and four days.That’s how long it took Eric Young to go from being a Little 500 champion to being a national champion.The former Cutters rider, who signed as a professional cyclist with BISSELL only days after winning the 2011 race, won the USA Cycling Pro Criterium Nationals on Aug. 20 in Grand Rapids, Mich.The race had some similarities to the Little 500.There was rain. There was a delay. And there was a sprint for the win.Bikers in the 73-lap race (approximately 50 miles) were 10 laps from completion when the rain started to fall. Young said the road became dangerous with four laps to go.“People were getting pushed off their bikes, and the barricades were getting blown over, and the tents were flying everywhere,” Young said. “It was pretty unsafe with the slick roads.”After a rain delay, which Young said lasted about an hour, the race resumed with 30 laps to go.“All my friends were watching it at the live feed online,” Young said. “And they were just, ‘Oh this (rain delay) is just like Little Five. We’ve got it.’”On the final lap, there was no breakaway. No sprint starting in the back stretch. No slick cinders on turn three.But there was Brad Huff, a Jelly Belly cyclist in search of his fourth national championship.“I was sprinting with this other guy ... sprinting, sprinting, sprinting, and he was in front, and then we were dead even for several seconds,” Young said. “It was close, and just at the end, I got it.”For the next year, he’ll wear a stars-and-stripes jersey in all U.S. criterium races to signify he is the champion. But when he was back on campus this week, he was sporting a Little 500 shirt, new scars and a little bit of shock.“I did not expect that to happen, because it’s kind of a big deal,” Young said. “I’m still digesting it, trying to figure out what it means. Everybody in American cycling kind of knows who I am now ... It’s crazy.”It’s the kind of attention Young shied away from while a part of the Little 500 community and the kind of humility Young’s friend Lyle Feigenbaum said he admires. Feigenbaum is owner of Scholar’s Inn Bakehouse.“He’s not afraid of hard work,” Feigenbaum said. “He used to work for me. He washed dishes, and one day it was 22 degrees out and he wanted to do a 90-mile ride by himself. This is the middle of winter when nobody is riding, and this kid wants to go do this ride by himself. He’s gifted, sure, but he’s the hardest worker, too.”Sitting outside the Indiana Memorial Union, Young laughed when asked how long it will be until he races in the Tour de France. After all, he didn’t start racing competitively until his freshman year at IU.The next step right now for the rookie cyclist is stage races, then hopefully the international scene.But for now, Young’s still trying to digest this new title.“I’m excited to see where I go with this bike racing thing,” he wrote on his blog a few days after victory. “But at the same time, I know I’ll never forget where I started: the family.”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>They don’t know why.Why a former World No. 1 tennis player applied for an online degree-completion program.Why a designer who launched the largest line ever by a female athlete chose a business program at a university in Richmond, Ind.Why Venus Williams, a seven-time Grand Slam winner, is now an IU-East Richmond Red Wolf.But John Oak Dalton, director of communications and marketing at IU-East, said the University is thrilled.“It was very surprising because you just don’t know the path someone takes to find you,” Dalton said. “It was a big name, and it wasn’t someone that we solicited or tried to find or told some celebrity person to go here to grow our online program. We weren’t really seeking out someone like herself. “She just found us like anyone else, I’m guessing, by searching and looking through online programs and trying to see what might be a good fit for her. Obviously what we have over a lot of programs is the Indiana University degree, which is obviously a highly respected, top quality degree.”It started with a sweatshirt. That’s what caught the eye of the American media and many IU students back in the United States. They recognized an IU-East shirt during Williams’ press conference after a match at Wimbledon — and the buzz began.Dalton said the University couldn’t release the status of their celebrity student at the time, but Williams began her IU classes in the summer. She is part of a program that allows her to complete the final 60 hours of a degree she has already begun online. She will have two years and one professional tennis schedule to work around.“We had a lot of concerns about her privacy, but she’s actually the one who has made the overtures,” Dalton said. “She tweeted today ‘Go Red Wolves’ from her official Twitter, which was good because a lot of people thought we were making it up. A lot of people thought we just had someone else named Venus Williams that went to school here.”It’s something IU freshman tennis player Katie Klyczek only had to be told once to believe. Maria Sharapova, Jennifer Capriati, Williams — they’re all on Klyczek’s list of favorite tennis players. She grew up watching Williams compete. She watched the young American and her domineering sister change the game of tennis.“It’s awesome,” Klyczek said. “I grew up wanting to play pro because of her, and now I’m graduating from the same place as her.”Currently ranked No. 36 in the world, Williams began her Women’s Tennis Association career in the early 1990s. She reached No. 1 in 2002, and although she’s moved around the top 10 in the last four years, she finished the 2010 season with her highest finish in the last eight years with the No. 5 ranking.Her 2011 season has been more of a downhill slide, with a third-round retirement from the Australian Open due to a hip injury and eight more tournament withdrawals in the last seven months.But Monday, Williams fired serves clocked as fast as 126 miles per hour during her opening match against Vesna Dolonts of Russia. The American tennis player won the match 6-4, 6-3 in one hour and eight minutes.So why is the eldest Williams sister — currently ranked No. 2 on the career prize money winners list with $27,860,151 (second only to her little sister, Serena) — pursuing a business degree?Why is the creator of V Starr Interiors and designer of her own women’s leather collection for Wilson’s Leather excited to be a Red Wolf?According to her biography on the WTA, Williams “loves studying new subjects” and “after tennis would like to continue her careers in interior design, fashion design and would like to take up choreography and music production.”But Dalton really doesn’t know why the 6-foot-1-inch, right-handed tennis player from Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., chose the University that lies 15 miles from the Ohio border.He only knows that something appealed to her to make her apply to IU-East. “It was kind of a bolt out of the sky,” Dalton said. “She looked like anybody else and looked for a school, but there’s only one IU.”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>While birds chirped and students nestled snugly in their beds, headlights illuminated the south end of the Student Recreational Sports Center parking lot.It was 6 a.m.The IU Rowing Club started its 20-minute trip to Lake Lemon.It’s a trip the rowers make at least five times a week for a two-hour practice on the lake — rain or shine or even fog.It’s one that ends in time for the start of their morning classes.And it’s a season that should start again by the end of this week Tim Climis, the club’s coach, said. The IU Rowing Club, in its sixth season, currently has only six rowers and a coxswain. The club’s first regatta is Lemonhead on Oct. 1 at Lake Lemon. Now, they’re looking for new recruits — those interested in being on the water early in the morning.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Tight pants and a helmet don’t seem like the most attractive outfit, but on this campus the pair make the ultimate fashion statement.More than 250 students turned into athletes on bikes last spring when they competed in the Little 500.Some riders wore greek letters. Others smeared face paint. Four riders donned that seven-letter word: CUTTERS.But there is one strong, common thread that combines most of the participants: before they came to IU, they were high school athletes. Out of 141 riders who took a survey conducted by the IDS in the weeks leading up to the 2011 race, only five said they didn’t participate in a sport for at least one full season in high school.Among the field of riders in the last race, 307 seasons of athletic experience pedaled across a cinder track.The next Little 500 race is more than 200 days away, but the training starts now. Team kits and Little 500 Schwinns are already appearing in the bike lanes across campus. It’s training that’s rigorous. In some cases, it’s been said to be as hard as an NCAA athlete’s workouts.Running the stairs of Ballantine Hall. Cycling on trainers for hours in the winter while watching the same cycling movie from 1979. It’s the hours teams put in now that the riders will talk about come race day.And it’s a student-organized event that anyone who played — or didn’t play — a high school sport can compete in.It’s the Little 500, and it’s for those who have always dreamed of breaking away.
Although the team starts practice many mornings while its still dark, the sun is shining bright when they lift the racing shell from the water at the end of practice and return it back to their boathouse. It'stime to return to campus before 9 a.m. classes, a full day of school and hopefully some sleep before they start again when their alarm rings at 5:30 a.m. tomorrow.
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"Catch ...catch...catch," the coxswain repeats. The rhythm of the coxswain helps propel the rowers across the water as fog rises off Lake Lemon. In rowing, the main thing that keeps the racing shells off the water is lightning and weather below 40 degrees, but fog hides other boaters on the lake. "Catch...catch," the coxswain said, as the boat glides across the sheet of water.
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"Ready at the catch guys," the coxswain said. "And row." For lose to two hours, five mornings a week, the rowing club members set multiple alarms, call to wake each other and even drag each other out of bed to make the early morning practice. Once they're on the water, all the sleep disappears from their face and only drops of dew and sweat remain.
It's 7:37 a.m. on Lake Lemon. The IU Rowing Club has been on the water for almost an hour. The swearshirts and warm-up pants were shed as soon as the sun rose and IU Rowing Coach Tim Climis gives his rowers one last word of advice before they start a 5-mile training session.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>When the white ball landed at the bottom of junior forward Morgan Fleetwood’s stick with 2:33 remaining in the overtime period, it was only the second time in 49 minutes Fleetwood raised her stick for a shot on goal.It was her second shot against Duke – the team ranked No. 15, who upset No. 6 Ohio State in their match Friday.The shot was her second resulting from a corner.The first time, it was a goal. This time, it was a golden goal.The shot rang off the wood at the back of the goal box as cheers filled the air.Fleetwood threw both hands toward the sky as she screamed and fell to her knees, and eventually her back when her teammates celebrated the 3-2 overtime victory with a dog pile.It was the first time IU played Duke, and it would go down as a W in the record books.“Everyone bought out that game, and it was a whole team effort in overtime,” Fleetwood said.But scoring goals wasn’t just a Sunday gift for Fleetwood. She scored twice Friday at IU Field Hockey Field, where the Hoosiers opened their 2011 campaign with a 3-0 win against Miami (OH).IU returned three of four starting defenders to open the season, senior Brenna Moeljadi, sophomore Danielle McNally and sophomore Hannah Boyer. The fourth defender, freshman Stefani Day, has transitioned seamlessly, Boyer said.“She’s come right in and picked up on things right away,” Boyer said.Sophomore Maggie Olson started in the cage for IU and recorded two saves in her first regular season start. Senior Viki Green played the second half in the cage.Each goalkeeper faced only one penalty corner.The experience of the Hoosiers’ defenders contributed to the low tally of penalty corners for the RedHawks.“Our composure was really important,” Boyer said. “We stayed composed under pressure. Our communication was positive throughout the game.”IU Coach Amy Robertson said her defenders’ experiences earlier in their careers have led to the ability to handle chaos with confidence.“They’ve learned,” said the 12-year coach. “You’re not going to get a lot of corners against us. We’re good tacklers. We can see situations before they’re actually forming and take care of it.”On Sunday, the Hoosiers took the game against Duke in chunks.“We focus on pieces that we can control,” Robertson said. “We don’t think about the outcome ... They didn’t let the pressure rattle them. They didn’t look at the magnitude of what the result could mean for them.”As for her forward who scored four of the team’s six goals in their opening weekend?“Morgan is one of the strongest people I’ve ever known,” Robertson said. “She can go through people, but now she’s finding where the defense is imbalanced, when she can get shots, how she can create space for herself. So really, she’s just become a smarter player. She always had the strength to do what she’s doing.”After the game, Fleetwood called the game a “confidence builder.”“Going 2-0 this weekend, that’s a huge deal for us,” the forward said, “especially after last year. We didn’t have the best season.”In the score box, Duke had 19 shots to IU’s six. The Blue Devils had nine corners. IU had five and scored off three, but the one that mattered most for IU was the final one that lead to the game-winning goal.“We have a lot of talent on this team,” Fleetwood said. “It’s just putting it together and creating opportunities and finishing. We did all of that this weekend.”