Sunday was a much nicer day for soccer than Saturday. The Royals played on both days, and enjoyed Sunday’s sun en route to a 2-0 victory over Stevenson University. EMU struck first, scoring just over 12 minutes into the game. Jordan Hollinger (Lancaster, PA/Lancaster Menno ...More
The Eastern Mennonite cross country teams kicked off their 2012 season in fine fashion Friday, hosting the EMU Royals Invitational. Freshman Hannah Chappell-Dick (Bluffton, OH/Bluffton) had a sterling start to her career, topping the field of 72 runners while the team took second over ...More
Erik Kratz doesn’t like the phrase, “rock-bottom.” He finds it demoralizing – even morbid – and it implies that, as he put it, that he’s been “down and out.” But he’s never truly felt that way. Not even through 10 years of toiling in the minor leagues, often getting told – either through speech or through his lack of movement up the ladder – that he wasn’t good enough. H ...More
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
Senior Lisa Lee (Buckingham, VA/Buckingham County) added one more award to her collection as she was named 2012 All-State Second Team as a utility player by the Virginia Sports Information Directors (VaSID). Lee was also named All-Region Second Team and All-ODAC Second Team. She was ...More
