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On May 15th, former four-star Warren Central recruit Walter Offutt chosen where he will play next season
On May 15th, former four-star Warren Central recruit Walter Offutt chosen where he will play next season
The Hoosiers (24-22) capped a wild finish against Kentucky (26-22) when a two-out, 10th inning double from senior Michael Earley plated two runs to give IU the 18-17 win
On May 19, Ashley Benson and her IU volleyball teammates will begin a trip through Europe — uncharted territory — to face some of the finest youth players from Italy, the Czech Republic and elsewhere.
The Hoosiers look to be a force to be reckoned with this weekend at Robert C. Haugh Complex, where they will host this year’s conference championship, especially after the women’s team moved into the Division I top-25 rankings, up 12 spots from their previous rank of 34th. The team’s change in ranking is mainly a result of their success at Billy Hayes Invitational last week, where the men’s and women’s teams combined to win seven events.
The IU men’s basketball team has achieved a 3.16 GPA for the spring semester, according to coach Tom Crean.
The Hoosiers (23-22, 9-9) won a pitchers’ duel 1-0 over Northwestern (21-27, 10-8) in the series finale and deciding game in their 3-game series at Rocky Miller Park Sunday.
Senior Molly Beckwith set a new track record in the 800-meter run, with a time of 2:02.18. Beckwith broke her own track record, set at last year’s Billy Hayes Invitational, by more than .30 seconds. Beckwith’s time is the third-fastest of an American and second-best on the Division I list this outdoor season. It is the second-fastest all-time in Indiana history.
The IU Athletics Department added a new administrator — one who has worked for the NCAA since 1999 — as the replacement for the current senior associate athletics director for Compliance and Administration.
The Hoosiers finished 31 shots out of eighth place, which is the cutoff for teams advancing to the NCAA Championships from May 18 to 21.
Guy-Marc Michel, a native of Sainte-Marie, Martinique, played at North Idaho College the past two seasons before signing a national letter of intent for IU on May 7. The seven-foot-one-inch, 256-pound center averaged 7.1 points and 7.3 rebounds per game as a sophomore for the Cardinals last season, and he led the Scenic West Athletic Conference in blocked shots for the second year in a row.
This phrase embodies the hope echoed throughout the IU track and field community — that the renovations to the outdoor track facility will make the school a Midwestern hub for the most talented athletes in the world.
The IU women’s softball team will look to West Lafayette as they attempt to break their losing streak of seven games in this weekend’s series.
Smith hopes that the more focused approach will allow his Hoosiers (21-21, 7-8) to come away successful from this weekend’s conference series at Northwestern (20-25, 9-6)
It will also be the first time the Hoosier runners will get a chance to compete on the new track, which is made of Polytan. The scientifically advanced substance is designed not only for durability, but for speed and performance as well.
The underhand tennis serve traditionally has only factored in instructional lessons for children, but on Feb. 8, 2003, it was the serve that clinched a victory for the IU women’s tennis team in a close 4-3 contest with Marquette.
The women’s tennis team will open up NCAA regional tournament play against No. 28 Vanderbilt (13-9) on Friday, May 14. The No. 41 Hoosiers (15-9) are the third seed in the Tennessee Regional, while their opponent holds the number two seed. The winner of this match will move onto to play the winner of the No. 14 Tennessee (16-8) and No. 66 Winthrop (16-8) match.
A variety of weather conditions — including a near rainout in the series finale – couldn’t slow the offense from either side of the baseball diamond this weekend at Sembower Field.
Way back in September 2006, the board of trustees approved three major building projects for an athletics department riding a bit of a high at the time.
When crossing the finish line, the 188 runners in the Coach Hep Indiana Cancer Challenge were greeted by eight women cheering them on with silver pom-poms in their hands and red shoelaces in their hair.