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2024年11月9日 · Next year, Eastern’s volleyball team will not be at Groniger Arena. The Panthers will hold all of their practices and play all of their home games starting in the fall 2025 season in south McAfee Gym, the university announced last week in a press release.. The move and renovations to McAfee gym are funded by a grant from Eastern alum Joe Gardella and his family.

6 天之前 · The announcement of the Nintendo Switch 2 is probably the highlight of my year so far. I know it’s only February and there will probably be bigger things to come like graduating college, but this announcement is still extremely exciting. Back on Jan. 16, Nintendo released the first-look trailer for a brand-new gaming console: the...

6 天之前 · About 80 runners entered Charleston’s annual Challenge Mid-Winter Classic Saturday morning at Carl Sandburg Elementary School. Participants could enter to run either a five-, 10- or 15-kilometer race. The event has been hosted by Charleston for over a decade and invites residents of Charleston as well as people from other towns to enjoy the...

5 天之前 · With women’s tennis at Eastern having a third of its season behind it, let’s look at what has happened so far and what’s to come. The women’s team has a record of 2-4 so far this season, winning a total of nine points and losing 26. Junior Aleyla Wooten said …

6 天之前 · The second day of the annual Lions in Winter festival took place on Thursday in Doudna Concert Hall. The festival involves authors holding discussions about tips and tricks of writing along with readings from the author’s work. The first event of the second day was a craft talk from author Julia Fine who has published...

6 天之前 · There is a new head coach for Eastern women’s basketball team, but he is not a new face. Interim head coach Marqus McGlothan got promoted over the summer after old head coach Matt Bollant left the program in May 2024. McGlothan was a part of Bollant’s staff starting in 2022. He came on as an...

2025年2月3日 · For the second year in a row, Eastern’s men’s basketball has only one true freshman on its roster. Last year, it was guard Isaiah Griffin. This year, it’s forward Terry McMorris. The Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, native committed to the program on May 29. McMorris started playing basketball at 3 years old when his father introduced...

5 天之前 · Redshirt sophomore guard Kam O’Connor started playing basketball around the age of 4. The Lebanon, Ohio, native averaged 14.4 points, 4.3 assists and 4.1 rebounds as a senior in high school. Coming out of high school, O’Connor played two season at the University of North Carolina Pembroke before transferring to Eastern. O’Connor chose North Carolina...

2025年1月23日 · EIU President Jay Gatrell announced in his spring update that EIU has been reaccredited by the Higher Learning Commission through 2034 among other updates. Eastern Illinois University’s first-time full-time student enrollment declined last semester with only 30 such students enrolling—varying from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center’s national report which increased.