CHARLESTON, Ill. — The Western Michigan track and field team won five events at the Eastern Illinois University Twilight Meet on Friday night, in its final meet ahead of next weekend’s Mid-American Conference Championship. WMU claimed wins in the 200-meter dash, 4×100-meter relay, 4×400-meter relay, pole vault, and the triple jump.…
CARBONDALE, Ill. – Eastern Illinois men’s and women’s track opened the 2016 outdoor season with a solid showing at the SIU Bill Cornell Classic. The Panthers had four first place finishes with five athletes posting EIU career top ten marks. Haleigh Knapp won the women’s high jump clearing 5’8″. The mark ranks fifth…
The Eastern women’s track team has never placed an athlete on the podium at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field National Championships. For that matter, Eastern has never put an athlete in the top 10. Jade Riebold has changed that. The redshirt junior finished in third place Friday, capping a…
NORMAL — Eric Gordon knows how important a good coach is to an athlete, so much so he wants to become a coach. When it came time for the Normal Community West High School pole vault star to choose a college, he wanted to know with as much certainty as…
