National tourney coming to IU
This Saturday at 9 a.m., Wildermuth gymnasium will be invaded. Schools from all over the country will storm in with three different types of swords in hand ready to do battle with the finest fencers IU has to offer.
This Saturday at 9 a.m., Wildermuth gymnasium will be invaded. Schools from all over the country will storm in with three different types of swords in hand ready to do battle with the finest fencers IU has to offer.
With the field set for the 57th annual Little 500, the teams can now focus on winning the spring series to prepare for the intramural cycling race. Tonight the Individual Time Trial will kick off the spring series events, determining which team will wear the coveted white jersey on race day.
When sophomore Jackie Moeller takes the track at Bill Armstrong Stadium for the Little 500 Individual Time Trials this evening, she’s going to be telling herself the same thing over and over. “It’s only four laps,” said Moeller, who rides for women’s pole-sitter Teter. “That’s it. After four laps, it’s over.”
Fresh off outstanding NCAA campaigns, IU swimming and diving standouts Leila Vaziri and Christina Loukas represented the United States at the FINA World Championships in Melbourne, Australia.
Spring is here and the IU golf club has come with it. The IU golf club is holding an informational meeting today at 7 p.m. today at the Student Recreational Sports Center auditorium. The co-presidents, junior Brenton Ling and freshman Preston Linville, will discuss what the participants want from the program.
Indiana in-state battles usually consist of IU against Purdue, but Ball State will be vying for the title of the state’s best team when it faces the Hoosiers in Muncie today.
The NCAA season is complete for the IU swimming and diving teams, but you wouldn’t know it based on Saturday morning’s practice. The sound of frantic swimming filled Councilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center as swimming coach Ray Looze paced the pool, urging his swimmers to push harder. As the swimmers touched the wall, they eagerly looked to their coach for their time.
It’s been more than a week since IU’s 54-49 loss to the UCLA Bruins in the second round of the NCAA tournament. Already, the Hoosiers are beginning their offseason work and preparing for the 2007-08 campaign. IU coach Kelvin Sampson said the squad will now focus on catching up academically, but the players will also begin their offseason workouts soon. “Strength training will be a huge point of emphasis (in the offseason), especially for the young kids,” Sampson said last Thursday during his weekly news conference. “We do a lot of explosive work and a little bit of everything. With the rule set up for time allowed, we have to shut down everything the week before finals, so we have a three-week window to practice.”
After the 2006 Little 500, the IU Student Foundation created a new rule that would bar nonstudents from coaching in the pits on race day. But on Friday, the organization announced it had changed its mind.
IU coach Tracy Smith wants power from his lineup, but he didn’t get it this weekend. Instead, Smith got two wins playing small ball as his Hoosiers swept a shortened two-game series with IU-Purdue University at Fort Wayne at Sembower Field.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – During their years at IU, former Hoosier standout soccer players Danny O’Rourke, Jed Zayner and Ned Grabavoy received their A’s in “Soccer 101.” Now, all three players have reached the next level as professional players for MLS’s Columbus Crew.
Although the IU rowing team left Lake Lemon disappointed after its loss to Wisconsin on Saturday, the defeat might have taught them just how much potential they have as team.
Many athletes dream about success at whatever they do. IU junior Elaine Harris said last week she was hoping to follow in former IU golfer Shannon Johnson’s footsteps. Chalk that up as a success. Seven days after scoring her first Big Ten golfer of the week honor, Harris scored her first career individual tournament title at the Mountain View Collegiate in Tucson, Ariz.
Though the fields for the men’s and women’s Little 500 were set Saturday, the biggest story of the day was who didn’t make the race. Defending men’s champion Alpha Tau Omega failed to make the field for the 57th men’s Little 500 after faulting on all three qualification attempts.
IU coach Barry King and the IU women’s water polo team were confident they were going to be the best team in the pool for their six road contests throughout Pennsylvania this weekend. And the results certainly backed up their swagger heading into the weekend.
Fourteen months after receiving a lifetime ban from the Little 500, Team Major Taylor coach Courtney Bishop has been reinstated by the IU Student Foundation. “It’s great to be back,” Bishop said. “I’ve been shocked before, so the decision is what the decision is.” IUSF Director Jenny Bruffey said the foundation lifted Bishop’s ban Friday, the same day the organization reversed a rule that banned alumni from coaching in the pits during the race.
The IU men’s tennis team stands at 1-2 in the Big Ten after splitting a pair of matches this weekend. The Hoosiers (11-7) fell to No. 23 Minnesota on Saturday 5-2, but they stormed back with a 6-1 win against Iowa on Sunday.
INDIANAPOLIS – It took 30 seconds for IU recruit and Indianapolis North Central star guard Eric Gordon to show how good he was in Saturday night’s Indiana Boys Basketball 4A state final. Then, not long afterward, East Chicago Central showed it took more than Eric Gordon to win a state championship.
Home runs were the theme in each of the Hoosiers’ four victories in this weekend’s IU Classic.
The IU women’s tennis team’s weekend matches could be characterized with one word: determination.