Illinois State Athletics has announced that tickets are now available for the Redbird Coaches Luncheon, which features head volleyball coach Leah Johnson and head football coach Brock Spack.
Illinois State alum Aisha Praught Leer ’12 will represent Jamaica on the track as she will compete in the 1,500-meter run. Women’s basketball player Jada Stinson, who will suit up as a graduate transfer from Arkansas State this winter for the Redbirds, will represent a Puerto Rico team making the Olympic tournament for the first time.
For the first time in more than three decades, Illinois State has earned back-to-back Missouri Valley Conference All-Sports Championships, as announced by the league office Friday.
The Weisbecker Scholarship Fund (WSF) is looking forward to a new initiative aimed at adding 61 new members over the next two months as part of the Building Futures campaign.
With the outcome of the game clear in hand, then Illinois State head women’s basketball coach Robin Pingeton sent star guard Kristi Cirone ’09 back to the scorer’s table.
Cathy (Olson) George ’85 still has her name scattered all over school and conference record books, even though her playing days ended nearly four decades ago.
As the phone rang inside the Illinois State women’s basketball offices in the early afternoon of December 9, Director of Operations Katie Bolkema, M.S. ’16, braced for a call she had both sent and received plenty of times throughout the early part of the makeshift college hoops season.
Illinois State men’s basketball legend Doug Collins ’73 was named a first-time finalist for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, going straight to the “direct elect” part of the ballot.
The gymnastics team ranked in the top 25 academically of all collegiate gymnastics programs last school year.
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