Eastern Mennonite University has announced the resignation of women’s soccer coach Sue Kolb. She also served as the Assistant Athletic Director of Student Athlete Well-Being. Kolb has accepted a position as an academic administrator in the athletic department at George Mason University. She recently completed her third season at the helm of the EMU women’s soccer program, lea ...More
Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) announces Dominick Porter as its new head men’s volleyball coach. Porter, a 2007 graduate of the EMU program, will be the eighth head coach in the 24 seasons since men’s volleyball started in 1991. An all-conference performer during his collegiate playing days, Porter continued improving after college and went on to play professionally in Ge ...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
Dave King, director of athletics at Eastern Mennonite University, is concerned for the way competitive sports can take over family life from a young age. As the father of three children who competed at high school and college levels and who was personally involved in education and sports most of his life, King is obviously not ...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
Eastern Mennonite University has launched a new athletics website, emuroyals.com! The new site is hosted by Presto Sports and allows for many features, such as larger photos, interactive statistics and better connection with other websites. Athletic Director Dave King said ...More
Eastern Mennonite University has announced the hiring of Lauren Reznik as interim women’s volleyball coach. Reznik not only brings knowledge of volleyball, but also of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference, as she was an assistant at Bridgewater College in 2010 and recently played four years for Roanoke College.She immediately takes over EMU’s women’s volleyball program ...More
Some 220 pastors and lay leaders attending the conference Jan. 19-22 at Eastern Mennonite Seminary heard messages on cultural change, engaging media, and race relations just as tens of thousands traveled to nearby D.C. for the inauguration of the country’s first African-American president. Read more… ...More
EMU athletic director Dave King welcomes invitations to speak on what he perceives as troubling trends in competitive sports. Photo by Jim Bishop David A. (Dave) King knows he may be juggling a hot pota ...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
