The Old Dominion Athletic Conference has announced its All-Academic Team for the 2011-12 season, and Eastern Mennonite University saw an increase to 61 student-athletes earning a spot. Last year 53 Royals were named to the team. Each of EMU’s sports was represented on the ODAC All-Academic Team except for men’s volleyball, which competes in the Continental Volleyball Conference. ...More
A few months removed from her breakout sophomore campaign, Bianca Ygarza (Conestoga, PA/Penn Manor) has picked up one more award, being named All-State Second Team by the Virginia Sports Information Directors (VaSID). This season, Ygarza increased her scoring and rebounding averages fr ...More
Eastern Mennonite University has announced the tentative fall schedules for the inaugural golf seasons this fall. Both men and women plan to participate in three meets in the fall and few more in the spring, with the postseason following in April and May. The Royal men, who expect to field a full team this year, will open Sept. 16-17 at the Tom Kinder Memorial hosted by Bridgewater Col ...More
When you ask people to name the greatest golfers you’ll get a standard list: Tiger Woods, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and so on. There’s a theme in those names; they’re all men. In recent years however, women have started picking up clubs and taking a crack at the sport with some serious success (we’re not talking Rene Russo in the movie, “Tin Cup,” h ...More
After a two-year hiatus in hosting a meet, the EMU cross country teams are back with gusto this fall. The Royals will be hosting the two Old Dominion Athletic Conference meets in 2012, the Preview to start the season and the Championships to wrap it up. Under second-year Head Coach Jason Lewkowicz, Eastern Mennonite will retu ...More
Eastern Mennonite released its 2012 women’s volleyball schedule today, and the Lady Royals will get the benefit of playing their top opponents in Harrisonburg this year. The women have 11 home matches on their 24-match slate, including hosting tradition ODAC powers Washington and Lee and Randolph-Macon. EMU welcomes in the Generals for the home opener on Sept. 11, and takes on th ...More
EMU has announced the hiring of Ben Spotts as head baseball coach. The Royals didn’t have to look too far… Spotts has spent the past 14 years as assistant baseball coach at Bridgewater College, just down the Route 42 corridor. He will become the tenth head baseball coach at EMU when he begins July 1, replacing interim ...More
After an incredible offensive season, D3baseball.com has recognized a pair of EMU baseball players to the All-South Region Team. Beau Banglesdorf (Stafford, VA/Mountain View) earned a spot on the All-Region First Team and ...More
Eastern Mennonite University has announced the hiring of Wendell Eberly as the school’s first-ever head golf coach. Eberly, also an alumnus and former women’s basketball coach, will head both the men’s and women’s golf teams at EMU, both of which will be a varsity sport for the first time this fall. He recently retired from a position with Rockingham County, spending more than ...More
When Kirby Dean first took the men’s basketball coaching job at Eastern Mennonite University in 2003, he didn’t spend much time recruiting transfer players. Nine years later, that hasn’t changed. The difference is that now, transfers are coming to him. Division III EMU will debut at least two and possibly three transfers this season, including power forw ...More
