Hall of Honor Archives

Hall of Honor: Gina Campbell Troyer

October 9, 2024Last updated October 8, 2024 by EMU Athletics Communications

Gina Troyer ‘93, a liberal arts major with a special education certification and a minor in coaching, was hesitant about playing sports in college after feeling a “little burned out”

Hall of Honor: Bianca Ygarza

October 2, 2024Last updated September 27, 2024 by EMU Athletics Communications

Bianca Ygarza ‘14 (nursing) played basketball with her sister Alicia Ygarza ‘16 at Penn Manor High School in Millerville, Pennsylvania, and chose to continue her career at EMU to study

Hall of Honor: Michael Allen

September 30, 2024Last updated September 27, 2024 by EMU Athletics Communications

Michael Allen ‘13, a liberal arts major with minors in Spanish and music, is a Fork Union, Virginia, native who leaped into EMU and its record books after having competed

Hall of Honor: Roland Landes

September 18, 2024Last updated September 25, 2024 by EMU Athletics Communications

Roland Landes wore many hats over the course of three decades at EMU, serving as an exemplary employee and coach of five different sports: men’s cross country, baseball, men’s basketball,

Save the date for Homecoming and Family Weekend 2024

August 29, 2024Last updated September 17, 2024 by Ryan Cornell

Alumni, parents, students and community members are invited to celebrate Eastern Mennonite University’s Homecoming and Family Weekend Oct. 11-13, 2024. This year’s events include a Royal City Celebration, a theater

Tales from the turf

July 18, 2024Last updated July 18, 2024 by Ryan Cornell

EMU’s field hockey coaches, players share stories and successes through the years When Eastern Mennonite University built a turf field in 1989, it became the first school in the Old

Hall of Honor: Luke Yoder

October 2, 2023Last updated October 2, 2023 by EMU Athletics Communications

Luke Yoder ‘08, a business administration major, liked the idea of attending a college 1000 miles from his home in Kalona, Iowa. He was drawn to the cross-cultural program at

Cross-cultural reunion, ‘Jubilee’ memories, alumni awards, one-man drama, sports, mark successful 2014 Homecoming

October 13, 2014Last updated November 4, 2014 by Steve Shenk

“I was on a low-level adrenalin rush the whole time during my cross-cultural,” said Tim Swartzendruber at the 20th anniversary reunion of his Eastern Mennonite University group that spent a

EMU Alum Erik Kratz Is Catching a Dream

March 27, 2013Last updated September 10, 2013 by Mike Zucconi

Erik Kratz, a 2002 Eastern Mennonite University graduate, went from taking pictures for fans to being the subject of their pictures during a roller-coaster 2012 Major League Baseball season with

Two EMU Alum Honored By Christopher Dock Mennonite High School

August 17, 2012Last updated October 15, 2012 by James De Boer

A pair of former Eastern Mennonite University athletes will be honored by their high school alma mater this fall, field hockey player Liza Heavener and baseball player Erik Kratz. Both

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