Freshmen runners impress team at Indiana Open
The Hoosiers showed up at the Indiana Open ready to run, with a calm and controlled approach in preparation for bigger, more important races.
The Hoosiers showed up at the Indiana Open ready to run, with a calm and controlled approach in preparation for bigger, more important races.
Members of the IU men’s and women’s golf teams were positioned at every par-three and par-five tee boxes to help the amateurs at the Spikes for Speakers Golf Classic, which benefitted the Delta Gamma Lectureship in Values and Ethics.
Located underneath the east side of Memorial Stadium, the academic center is a 25,800-square-foot complex that includes 16 classrooms, a computer lab and various studying areas.
Indiana scored quickly — 37 seconds into the match against Marquette on Sunday, but the Golden Eagles responded less than seven minutes later and went on to win a 2-1 victory.
Senior forward Alec Purdie scored three goals for the weekend, powering his team to wins against Bucknell and Denver for the tournament title.
Midway through the second set of the IU volleyball match against Gonzaga on Friday, play was stopped as the crowd rose to their feet to applaud IU’s new all-time digs leader, senior libero Caitlin Cox.
In the decade after 9/11, Assistant Athletic Director for Facilities Chuck Crabb said Indiana athletics has had a more diligent review for how it operates “large crowd events,” mainly at Assembly Hall and Memorial Stadium.
Ten years later, senior IU tennis player Will Kendall can still vividly recall the moment his life came to a sudden and unexpected halt.
The Hoosiers took a different path to get there, but ultimately, the result was the same. They lost to Virginia in the most ridiculous of ways.
In a game where momentum ebbed and flowed with the turnover battle, IU’s turnover-fueled comeback in the second half was effectively negated by a turnover of its own.
Virginia’s senior defensive end Cam Johnson sacked Wright-Baker and forced a fumble with 1:13 remaining in the game. The Cavaliers recovered at the IU 14-yard line. They ran down the clock and kicked a game-winning field goal as time expired to secure a 34-31 victory, spoiling a 21-point fourth-quarter IU comeback.
A 24-yard field goal in the final two seconds of the game helped the University of Virginia edge IU.
IU lost to Virginia Saturday.
Football beat reporters Alex McCarthy and Max McCombs and columnist Justin Albers discuss last week’s loss to Ball State and preview Saturday’s home opener against Virginia in the inaugural edition of the Hoosier Hype podcast.
With conference play on the horizon, the IU women’s soccer team has little time left to ensure they are prepared for the rigors of a Big Ten season.
One week after sweeping the IU Classic at home, the IU women’s volleyball team returns this weekend to welcome Gonzaga, Niagara and Eastern Illinois at the Hoosier Classic.
In the midst of a busy golf season, 12 professionals will take a break from their usual competition Friday at the Spikes for Speakers Golf Classic, benefiting the Delta Gamma Lectureship in Values and Ethic.
After two wins last weekend in the adidas/IU Credit Union Classic against St. Louis and Dayton, the No. 10-ranked men’s soccer team is back in action this weekend in South Bend for the Mike Berticelli Memorial Tournament. They will face Bucknell and Denver.
The Hoosiers will open their fall season this weekend at the Northern Intercollegiate in Aurora, Ill. Northern Illinois will have the 54-hole stroke play event at Rich Harvest Farms, a par-72 course listed among Rolex World’s Top 1000 Golf Courses.
Ranked for the first time this season, No. 19 IU travels to the west coast to face No. 16 Stanford and UC Berkeley.