Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) head men’s volleyball coach Gary Moore is facing charges related to an alleged misdemeanor sexual battery case in Chesapeake, Va., where he was employed in a non-volleyball related position prior to beginning his role at EMU in fall 2012. ...More
Eastern Mennonite University has announced the hiring of Gary Moore as its next head men’s volleyball coach. Moore becomes the seventh head mentor of the men’s program, which was started in 1991. He takes over for Interim Coach Derek King, who guided the Royals to an 11-14 record last spring, their first season in the new Contin ...More
Eastern Mennonite University has announced that it will be adding men’s and women’s golf programs, starting with the 2012-13 season. Both men and women will compete as sponsored Old Dominion Athletic Conference sports, with the conference also adding the women’s sport next fall. The new programs bring the number of athletic offerings at EMU to 17. The school also offers basebal ...More
Eastern Mennonite University will join other schools and organizations in observing a moment of silence at 9:45 a.m. Monday, Apr. 23, marking the one-week anniversary of the Virginia Tech campus shootings and loss of 32 lives. Persons are invited to gather at the fountain in the center of campus. Following a period of silence, the chapel chimes on the roof of Lehman Auditorium will ri ...More
Ken L. Nafziger, vice president for student life at Eastern Mennonite University, has announced a decision to discontinue its men’s varsity tennis program and transition to club team status. Read more… ...More
The condition of Michael Wiebe-Johnson, 19, the EMU student who fell from the third-story roof of Oakwood residence hall early Friday morning, has been upgraded to "stable." He was transported by helicopter to University of Virginia Medical Center at approximately 6:25 a.m. Friday. The first-year pre-engineering student from Elkhart, Ind., was moved Saturday from the ...More
Early Friday morning, April 13, a prank orchestrated by a group of EMU students turned tragic when a student fell off the roof of the three-story Oakwood residence hall. Michael Wiebe-Johnson, 19, a first-year student from Elkhart, Ind., was injured while the group was attempting to place a stuffed American bison from the university’s Suter Science Center lobby on the dorm roof. ...More
J. Richard Thomas, chair of the academics committee of the EMU board of trustees, makes a proposal for action to the full board as President Loren Swartzendruber and board chair Susan E. Godshall listen. ...More
September 11. Say no more, and horrific images of that day five years ago immediately spring to mind. How do people process such violent acts, whether victims themselves or onlookers from a distance? Kaethe Weingarten, a renowned trauma expert, psychologist and Harvard Medical School faculty member, will give several presentations on the theme, “A Compassionate Response ...More
After two seasons as an assistant coach, Holly Shifflett, currently of Charlottesville, Va., will take over as head coach of the women’s soccer program, Athletic Director David A. King announced Friday, Jan. 6. Read more… ...More
