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Young baseball team holds promise

Last season, the majority of Indiana Wesleyan’s baseball team were freshmen; some considered it a rebuilding year as the team finished with an 18-35 overall record.
According to catcher Alex Ridlen (so), “Last year was kind of a rebuilding year for us, which is a good thing because opposing teams don’t really see us coming.”
Losing only…

IWU men’s basketball falls at quarterfinals

With an NAIA championship run in sight, the Indiana Wesleyan men’s basketball team needed a win against No. 6-seeded Oklahoma Wesleyan to secure its spot in the final four round, but unfortunately the road ended here for the Wildcats in a 71-59 defeat.
If IWU would have won, then it would be facing a familiar foe…

IWU women’s basketball team falls in semifinals

The Indiana Wesleyan University Lady Wildcats traveled to the NAIA Women’s Division-II National Championships, wanting to make a statement after not winning the Mid-Central College Conference Tournament. The Wildcats not only made a statement, but they dominated almost every game during the tournament, until their final four loss to Shawnee State (Ohio) University 57-56. Indiana…

Indoor track and field teams compete nationally

Vancouver is not the only city with photo finishes and medal ceremonies to bring attention to the hard work of competing athletes.
The men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams from Indiana Wesleyan University competed in the NCCAA National Championship this past weekend in Cedarville, Ohio. Going into the event both teams were confident that…

Coverstone IWU’s second to hit 1,000 rebounds

Zach Coverstone (sr) joins Indiana Wesleyan University’s legendary 1,000-rebound club.
Coverstone is only the second men’s basketball player in IWU history to get 1,000 rebounds in his career. The record was achieved during a game against Marion University where he pulled down 17 rebounds throughout the game—just three rebounds short of his single game record of…

Cheerleaders take sixth in nationals

The Indiana Wesleyan University cheerleaders worked hard on and off the mat to place at Nationals and grow as a team.
The IWU cheerleaders normally spend the fall working on routines and trying to achieve perfection for Nationals in January. This year has been different. The cheerleaders worked just as hard as years before, but this…

IWU Men’s basketball fifth in nation

The Indiana Wesleyan men’s basketball team is now ranked fifth in the nation, following its big win against Spring Arbor on Saturday, Feb. 6. Word about the team’s success has escaped from IWU and made it into the top news of Marion, IN.
When searching for Marion news on Google, the engine had the article about…

Lady Wildcats fall on the road

Saturday afternoon, the No. 6-ranked Indiana Wesleyan Lady Wildcats basketball team suffered a loss at Spring Arbor (Mich.) University by a score of 68-60.
Earlier in the season, the Wildcats defeated this same team at home with a score of 70-25.
Spring Arbor shot lights out in the second half as the Cougars shot 73.7 percent and…

Men’s basketball to play NAIA D-II Game of the Week

On Thursday evening, the NAIA announced that the Indiana Wesleyan men’s basketball game versus Spring Arbor (Mich.) University would be the NAIA D-II Game of the Week. Both teams entered the game ranked nationally in the Division II Top-25 poll, with Indiana Wesleyan currently ranked No. 5 and Spring Arbor ranked No. 19.
Indiana Wesleyan has…

Corey’s take on Super Bowl XLIV’s commercials

Super Bowl XLIV set a record as the most-viewed television network event in history with roughly 106 million viewers. Some people watch it for the game and the halftime show, others watch it for the commercials.
Year after year numerous commercials make their mark in history as millions of viewers from all around the world are…