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Life Lessons on and off The Court.
Ryan Looney’s, ’98, skill at building teams has proven successful—and those successes culminated into an opportunity to be the head coach of an NCAA Division 1 basketball team. There were a lot of stops along the road to the Division 1 job, but that was never the plan. “Each time we moved, there was an...
Good to the bone
About one in 430 registered donors get matched with a recipient and successfully donate bone marrow. EOU Women’s Soccer Coach Jake Plocher became one of them last May. Plocher joined the registry of donors with a cheek swab in 2012 to support a soccer player who helped coordinate the drive on campus. Six years later,...
Maya bein’ Maya
Only a few high school sophomores could be said to have grace and maturity, and even fewer of them grow up to earn one of the nation’s most prestigious awards for personal character. Maya Ah You Dias, a junior on Eastern Oregon University’s women’s basketball team, is that student.
EOU Men’s Basketball Season Comes to a Close
For the first time since 2011, the No. 17 EOU men’s basketball team earned a win in the NAIA Division II National Championship. The Mountaineers finished 24-9 and 15-5 in the Cascade Collegiate Conference (CCC) for a second place finish in the regular season. It was only one year ago when EOU finished a combined...
