College Sports

DePauw University will pursue competition opportunities for winter sports following a decision today by the North Coast Athletic Conference’s Presidents’ Council to cancel conference play, including conference championships, for the winter season. The NCAC vote applies to men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s swimming and diving and men’s and women’s indoor track and field...

Maggie Meyer of the Marian women’s volleyball team has been named the Crossroads League Defender of the Week, as announced by the league on Monday afternoon. This is the first player of the week honor for Meyer in her career. Meyer, a Greencastle High School graduate, helped the top-ranked Knights to a four-set win over Taylor, picking up 17 digs in the four games to go with six assists and a pair of service aces. Meyer’s 17 digs were a match high, and she averaged 4.25 digs per set in the win...

Over the last several months, North Coast Athletic Conference members have been focused on the safe reopening of our campuses this fall. All continue to focus on the evolving challenges to our communities presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. In keeping with public health guidance, members have maintained universal masking and physical distancing protocols, limits on travel on and off campus, and limits on the size of on-campus gatherings, as well as contact tracing, quarantine and isolation protocols.. ...

The awards continue to pile up for Huntington University sophomore Emma Wilson who was tabbed the NAIA Women’s Runner of the Week for the second straight week as announced by the national office earlier today. Wilson’s 5K performance at the NAIA Seminole Valley Stampede this past weekend proved the top time in the nation across all college divisions so far this fall. ...

The Marian men's soccer developmental team picked up a dominant win in its home opener, romping Oakland City 5-0 on Monday. The Knights poured in four goals in the first half, finishing the game with a flurry of shots as they improved to 3-1 with the win...

HUNTINGTON – For the second time this season, Huntington University sophomore Emma Wilson was voted the Crossroads League Runner of the Week as announced by the league office earlier this afternoon. The Greencastle High School graduate ran away from her competition at the Huntington Invitational on Friday by clocking in at 17:13 to claim the individual title and lead her team to a first place finish. ...

MARION — Greencastle graduate Emma Wilson made a big splash on Saturday in her first race for Huntington University in the Indiana Wesleyan Twilight meet. In addition to running away from the field, with more than 50 seconds between her and the next finisher, the University of Illinois transfer also broke new teammate Hannah Stoffel’s course record from last year by clocking in at 17:01.6 and rewrote the HU record books with a new program-best 5K time...

The NBA bubble has held. So has the NHL’s double bubble. The WNBA and MLS, no leaks. In this unprecedented landscape of sports in a pandemic world, one indisputable fact has emerged: bubbles work. Thousands of tests, minimal to no positive COVID-19 test results...

The NCAA called off fall championship events — a move Thursday that does not affect major college football — because not enough schools will be competing in sports such as men’s and women’s soccer and women’s volleyball during the first semester. NCAA President Mark Emmert made the announcement in a video posted on Twitter, but it has been clear this was coming as conferences canceled fall sports seasons because of the coronvirus pandemic...

President Donald Trump on Monday joined a U.S. senator and a number of coaches calling to save the college football season from a pandemic-forced shutdown as supporters pushed the premise that the players are safer because of their sport. There was speculation two of the five most powerful conferences — the Big Ten and the Pac-12 — might call off their fall seasons and explore the possibility of spring football...

The Big Ten released its 10-game conference-only football schedule beginning as early as Labor Day weekend but cautioned Wednesday there is no certainty games will be played. The Big Ten was the last of the Power Five conferences to announce its schedule as college football navigates how to play games amid the coronavirus pandemic...

Baseball has begun its coronavirus-delayed season with limited long-distance travel and no fans in the stands. The NBA has its Disney World bubble. The NHL will have two bubbles, in Toronto and Edmonton. NFL rookies began reporting to training facilities last week as teams build up toward the start of training camp...

On Monday: • The Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference announced that high-risk contact sports soccer, football and volleyball will be played in the spring of 2021. The HCAC plans to have competitions this fall in tennis, golf and cross country as scheduled...