The University of Illinois Springfield women’s basketball team will not look the same when it takes the court later this year.
That may come as a surprise to those who follow the Prairie Stars. When the season ended, it looked as if UIS would return seven players. However, only senior forward, Cassie Wolfe, senior guard Courtney Knuckles and junior Meredith Marti will be back.
When UIS coach Chad Oletzke learned following postseason interviews that Carly Goede, Nicole Collins, Jamie Cuny and Gwen Zehner weren’t returning, he set out to overhaul the roster. He has unveiled 10 new players. Nine are transfers.
“We pretty much had to re-work the roster with three returners,” Oletzke said. “The ones that aren’t returning ... it wasn’t that we didn’t ask them to come back. They had things happen in their personal lives and they decided not to come back.
“We had to really touch every position to get deeper and stronger.”
The story was reported by The State Journal-Register on June 25, 2014.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014
UIS’ Mundell takes softball post at Evansville
University of Illinois Springfield softball coach Mat Mundell is moving up in the world.
He has resigned to fill the same post at NCAA Division I Evansville
“It is a chance to coach at the highest level and see if we can compete there,” Mundell said. “It’s a tremendous opportunity for our family and I to better ourselves. It was a tremendous opportunity I couldn’t pass up.”
Evansville announced Mundell, 34, as its new coach Friday afternoon. He replaces Mark Redburn, who resigned in May. Redburn had a five-year record of 90-175.
Much has changed in Mundell’s life in recent weeks. He and his wife, Kelly, became first-time parents May 30 with the birth of their daughter, Marlee.
Mundell, a native of Normal, arrived at UIS as a men’s basketball assistant. He coached the softball team for five full seasons and helped usher the Prairie Stars from the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics to NCAA Division II in 2010. He was interim coach for a portion of the 2009 season and UIS finished 4-27. Since becoming head coach in 2010, he was 113-134.
“It was tough to say goodbye,” he said. We had a great group here.”
Mundell was featured by The State Journal-Register on June 22, 2014.
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He has resigned to fill the same post at NCAA Division I Evansville
“It is a chance to coach at the highest level and see if we can compete there,” Mundell said. “It’s a tremendous opportunity for our family and I to better ourselves. It was a tremendous opportunity I couldn’t pass up.”
Evansville announced Mundell, 34, as its new coach Friday afternoon. He replaces Mark Redburn, who resigned in May. Redburn had a five-year record of 90-175.
Much has changed in Mundell’s life in recent weeks. He and his wife, Kelly, became first-time parents May 30 with the birth of their daughter, Marlee.
Mundell, a native of Normal, arrived at UIS as a men’s basketball assistant. He coached the softball team for five full seasons and helped usher the Prairie Stars from the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics to NCAA Division II in 2010. He was interim coach for a portion of the 2009 season and UIS finished 4-27. Since becoming head coach in 2010, he was 113-134.
“It was tough to say goodbye,” he said. We had a great group here.”
Mundell was featured by The State Journal-Register on June 22, 2014.
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UIS professor speaking at Korean War museum
The Korean War’s effect on the Cold War will be one of the issues discussed at an upcoming event at the Korean War National Museum in downtown Springfield.
Cecilia Cornell, associate professor of history and director of the Whitney M. Young Graduate Fellowship Program at the University of Illinois Springfield, is the featured speaker for the event. She will talk about how the international context of the Cold War helped define the nature and course of the Korean War and how the Korean War transformed the Cold War.
The event is scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday, June 28 at the museum, which is located at 9 Old State Capitol Plaza. It’s the third installment in the museum’s 2014 speaker series.
Cornell was featured by The State Journal-Register on June 23, 2014.
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Cecilia Cornell, associate professor of history and director of the Whitney M. Young Graduate Fellowship Program at the University of Illinois Springfield, is the featured speaker for the event. She will talk about how the international context of the Cold War helped define the nature and course of the Korean War and how the Korean War transformed the Cold War.
The event is scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday, June 28 at the museum, which is located at 9 Old State Capitol Plaza. It’s the third installment in the museum’s 2014 speaker series.
Cornell was featured by The State Journal-Register on June 23, 2014.
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