Illinois Wesleyan’s season opener won’t count toward a potential playoff berth, but it certainly will count for national pride according to head coach Norm Eash.… MORE
Category Archives: Illinois Wesleyan Titans
Titans looking for ‘One More Thing’ in 2016
The 2016 Illinois Wesylan football team is entering this seasons play with bringing back twenty of its seniors to bolster their offense and defense in the 2016 campaign. … MORE
IWU picked to defend CCIW women’s soccer title
Defending champion Illinois Wesleyan was picked to win the 2016 College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin women’s soccer title according to a conference-wide preseason coaches’ poll announced Wednesday.… MORE
Stone named IWU men’s tennis coach
Former Division III tennis player Benjamin Stone has been hired as the new men’s tennis coach at Illinois Wesleyan University.… MORE
IWU names Tiffany Prager head softball coach
The recipient of a number of honors as a player at Illinois State and a former assistant coach at Illinois Wesleyan, Tiffany Prager has been chosen as IWU’s next head softball coach, athletic director Mike Wagner announced today.… MORE
IWU hoops to play in Spain
The Illinois Wesleyan men’s basketball team begins practice on Friday, July 29, in preparation for a series of three exhibition games during an eight-day stay in Spain from August 11-20.… MORE
8 Titans earn NABC honors
Eight individuals and the Illinois Wesleyan men’s basketball team have been recognized for academic achievement by The National Association of Basketball Coaches.… MORE
McCreery steps down as Illinois Wesleyan softball coach
Kat McCreery, who led the Illinois Wesleyan softball team to a seventh-place finish in the NCAA Division III national finals this spring and three straight NCAA tournament appearances and, has announced she will leave IWU after three highly successful seasons as the Titans’ head coach.… MORE
Illinois Wesleyan’s Harmon, Leonard earn top CCIW honors
Illinois Wesleyan’s Max Leonard was named the College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin Man of the Year on Monday while fellow Titan Jill Harmon was named the CCIW Woman of the Year.… MORE
Retired Illinois Wesleyan SID Alsene remembered for ‘professionalism’
He’s considered one of the legends of Illinois Wesleyan athletics even though many of you might not have known him.… MORE
Blogs
Labor Day – Expanding voting rights for all
By Mike Matejka Because of COVID, there is no Labor Day Parade this year. It’s always a great event for our everyday workers to march proudly down the street and enjoys the festive crowd. If there had been a parade, this year’s Labor Day theme was to be “150 years of struggle: your right to vote.” …
Is federal mobilization the answer?
By Mike Matejka As President Donald Trump threatens to send federal marshals into Chicago, over the objections of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, recall another Illinois Governor who protested the incursion of armed federal personnel into the city. Those federal troops, rather than calming, escalated the situation, leading to deaths and violence. Illinois poet Vachel Lindsay…
In these troubled times, to my fellow white Americans
By Mike Matejka Our nation is at a unique watershed in human relations. African-Americans have been killed too many times in the past before George Floyd, but the response to this man’s death is international and all-encompassing. I was a grade-schooler during the Civil Rights 1960s. I watched Birmingham demonstrators hosed and the Selma – Montgomery…
Workers’ Memorial Day – Remember those whose job took their life
Looking around our community, when we say employer, most will respond to State Farm, Country, or Illinois State University. We too often forget those who are building our roads, serving our food, or our public employees. COVID-19 has made us more aware of the risk. Going to work every day for some people means…