The University of Akron Athletics
athletics emails tom 2013 14 may 2 2014
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THE ZIPPYS
On Monday we held one of my favorite events of the year, "The Zippys," our annual all Student-Athlete Banquet. It's a wonderful time to see every student-athlete (except those who have class at that time) dressed up to celebrate the end of the academic year and all of our achievements in the classroom, in competition and in the community. We handed out a number of awards that you can read about here, but what I love most is hearing our student-athletes speak in front of their peers about how meaningful their experience was as a Zip. Kacie Cassell from Women's Basketball and Bjorn Johansson from Track and Field did a terrific job with their senior reflections, as did our award winners with their acceptance speeches. We're so fortunate to have such a caring and devoted group of students represent our University and Zips Athletics.
FIRST FOOTBALL SEASON TICKETHOLDER PRIZEWINNER ANNOUNCED
Congratulations to Dawn Daniel, our first 2014 Football Season Ticketholder Winner! Dawn will travel with the Football team for our game at Penn State on Sept. 6. We're thrilled that Dawn, a second-year Football season ticketholder, and her guest will join us on the team bus, stay at the team hotel and receive complimentary tickets to our game at Beaver Stadium.
We are drawing a winner to join us on each of our six road games in 2014. Our next drawing will be for a trip for two to our game at Pittsburgh on Sept. 27. All you have to do is purchase at least two football season tickets (can be either new or renewed seats) by 5 p.m. ET today! Here are the deadlines to be eligible for the rest of the trips – please join our team as a ticketholder so you have the chance to join our team on a trip!
ON TAP THIS WEEKEND ...
... Men's Golf heads west for the MAC Championship in Carmel, Ind., beginning with two rounds today and continuing through the weekend. Good luck to Coach Trainor and his squad!
... Softball hosts its final four games of the regular season, with a doubleheader today vs. Northern Illinois starting at 1 p.m., as well as games vs. Western Michigan at 2 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday. Saturday is Senior Day for our sole senior Jessica Schneider, and Sunday is our eighth annual Strike Out Cancer Day, at which we will partner with the Celtic Club for a Day of Hope that includes a 1,000-foot display of bras around Lee Jackson Field. We will have a drawing for a breast cancer awareness prize basket, and another drawing all weekend for a pink bat, glove and softball autographed by the entire team, with the winner to be announced Sunday. We also will be selling special t-shirts, with all of the proceeds going to breast cancer research. Of course, we're trying to clinch a spot in the MAC Tournament and improve our seed, so join us to cheer on the team!
... Baseball has its final MAC weekend home series of the season, as we host Ball State today at 3 p.m. and at 1 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Sunday will be Fan Appreciation Day and our Zippy Kids' Club Day. That day we will also honor our three seniors – Joe Cochran, James Sheltrown and Brady Stewart – for Senior Day. We are in the thick of the race for the MAC Tournament and would love your support!
... Today at 3 p.m. is UA Faculty and Staff Appreciation Day at both Softball and Baseball – please join us at Lee Jackson Field for both games and some food on the final day of class ...
... More than 40 members of Track and Field travel to the Longhorn Invitational at the University of Texas ...
SAVE THE DATE!
... Football's Annual Summer Jamboree Golf Outing will be held on Friday, June 6, at The Quarry Golf Club in Canton ...
CONGRATS TO ...
... redshirt junior Matt LaRocca, who hit a two-run home run in Baseball's 9-5 win Wednesday at Wright State ...
... Four members of Swimming and Diving for earning Academic All-MAC Honorees ...
... Jason Sanders, who was named the MAC Football Video Coordinator of the Year for the second consecutive year ...
... sophomore pitcher Erin Seiler, who was named MAC East Co-Pitcher of the Week after posting a pair of complete-game shutouts vs. first-place Ohio – a 2-0 win Saturday and a 9-0 victory Sunday ...
... Women's Golf, which last weekend finished tied for fifth in the MAC Championship, an improvement of two spots from the prior year thanks to the second-consecutive top-20 finish by Laura Murray ...
... senior Brad Hough of Track and Field on his victory in the 1,500-meter race at the Ashland Alumni Open as he returns from an injury that forced him to miss the entire indoor season. Shauniece Steele in the 400-meter, Megan Dornisch in the hammer throw and De'Waylan Letlow in the 400-meter hurdles also earned first-place finishes ...
... former wide receiver Marquelo Suel, who was the first pick in the inaugural Rivals Professional Football League ...
ZIPS CLIPS (TO READ) ...
... Women's Basketball Head Coach Jodi Kest has turned Akron into a winner, writes Mark Znidar of The Columbus Dispatch ...
... Men's Basketball Head Coach Keith Dambrot spoke at the Pro Football Hall of Fame Luncheon Club (Canton Repository and The Review) ...
ZIPS CLIPS (TO WATCH) ...
... Did you know that Football Head Coach Terry Bowden and I may have found our calling as yodelers? Here's the video – and coverage from CBSSports.com, SI.com, Yahoo! Sports and the Akron Beacon Journal, among others ...
... a fantastic goal (video here) by freshman Richie Laryea of Men's Soccer's 1-1 draw Saturday at Xavier in our final game of the spring ...
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Go Zips!
Tom Wistrcill
Director of Athletics
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