CLEVELAND - Kelly Packard stood before the media following her team's 55-51 Mid-American Conference Championship-winning game against Bowling Green State University and could've taken all the credit. After all, it was under her leadership that the Ball State University women's basketball team advanced to its first NCAA Tournament, won its first-ever MAC Championship and won a school-record 25 games with the postseason yet to be played.
Ball State University fifth-year senior Amber Williams finished the 2009 NCAA Women's Indoor Track and Field Championships 60-meter hurdle race in 12th place this past weekend. Williams competed against 18 of the nation's best to represent the Ball State track and field team in the NCAA Championships.
The 2009 Ball State University women's basketball team danced its way into history Sunday as it won the program's first-ever Mid-American Conference Championship and admission into the NCAA Tournament. As the women celebrated, administrators began organizing a viewing party at Damon's Grill where fans, friends and family can support the team as it finds out where it will play next.
A 3-0 loss to Chicago State University on Sunday sends the Ball State University baseball team back to where it started Spring Break, two games above .500. The Cardinals went 5-5 during three series and improved their record to 9-7. Sunday's loss prevented the Cardinals from sweeping their home-opening series, after splitting two games at Southern Illinois University and dropping three of four at the University of Missouri.
The Ball State University gymnastic team's regular season concluded Friday as the Cardinals finished in fourth place out of four teams in a tournament that included California State University, Fullerton, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and host Arizona State University.
With more than 32 years of service on her résumé, Marilyn Weaver has won the Scripps Howard Foundation Journalism Administrator of the Year Award. The award is given in collaboration with the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
CLEVELAND - The Ball State University women's basketball team is now one win away from the program's first-ever MAC Championship title and NCAA Tournament birth.
Click on this story to get Saturday's news and notes from the men's basketball and women's basketball MAC Tournament.
With the win, the Cardinals improve to 25-8 and set a single-season record for wins in a season.
The Ball State University women's basketball team will find out its destination for its first NCAA Tournament Monday at Damon's Grill.
The MAC All-Tournament Teams were also announced following the game. Bowing Green State University's Nate Miller, Buffalo's Max Boudreau and Akron's Steve McNees, Brett McKnight and Linhart formed the five-man team, and Linhart took home Tournament MVP honors.
For the third time in four days the No. 14 Ball State lost a road conference match in five games. Ball State blew a two-game lead as it lost to Loyola 24-30, 30-32, 30-27, 33-31, 15-10 on Saturday in Chicago.
So there I was, flabbergasted by what was taking place. I was celebrating a friend's 21st birthday. There were 10 of us: five boys and five girls. The scene was Broad Ripple. The night was entertaining, but it ended with the birthday girl getting hurled on by one of our friends.
While most students will pack up and leave for their Spring Break destinations today, the Ball State University's men's tennis team will be hard at work. That's because the Cardinals will try to sweep a doubleheader against Chicago State University and Anderson University.
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Sen. Richard Lugar will be Ball State University's Commencement speaker this May, according to a press release. Lugar, the Senate's ranking Republican, was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1976 and won a sixth term in 2006 with 87 percent of the vote, according to his Web site.
The last grain of sand in the hourglass will fall this weekend for the Ball State University track and field team to qualify for the NCAA provisionals. Before time runs out, the Cardinals will travel to South Bend for the Alex Wilson Invitational for their last attempt to make time requirements for the 2009 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in College Station, Texas.
