Tuesday, February 12, 2013 | TechNews

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Swimming, diving face multiple meets, fans show support

Aimee Dewante
TECHNEWS WRITER

This past weekend was another
tough double for the Scarlet Hawks with back,
toeback meets Friday night and Saturday afe
ternoonl Friday was at home against the Lake
Forest Foresters, resulting in a split with the
men’s team winning 1187105 while the women
fell 157, 321

Saturday was a long meet with 16
events against host Olivet Nazarene University,
where many of the Scarlet Hawks swam off,
events, though they still raced well and fought
hard Full results of both meets can be found
on the IIT Athletic page, at Illinois Tech Swim,
ming and Diving page under “Schedule and
Results”

Some highlights from Friday night
against Lake Forest include the domination
seen in the 200 free by freshman Kevin Boldt
and junior Arya Mohaimani, finishing first and
second respectively Senior Aimee Dewante
also picked up a first place finish in the 200
free, with junior Abigail Maze just behind her
The Scarlet Hawk men also took 2nd through
4th in the 50 free with senior Matthew Rosene
feld leading the way, followed closely by senior

Dylan Maus and sophomore Matt O’Rourke
Freshman Nicole Frantz swam the 200 IM for
the first time this season and finished second
while senior diver Ian McNair easily won both
men’s 1 meter and 3 meter events Freshmen
Kevin Boldt, Mike Dobben, and Tanner Grieve
all had exciting races in the 500 free, as did
both the women and men’s 200 freestyle relay

The Hawks were especially excited to
see a significant number of fans cheering them
on throughout the meet, including President
Andersonl Their next and last home meet of
the season is at 4pm on Friday, February 8th
against Lincoln College The Scarlet Hawks
made the trip out to ONU, another NAIA
school on Saturday afternoon The first in,
dividual event IIT swam in was the 200 free,
where Abby Maze and Nicole Frantz stayed
consistent with what they have been doing
this season The men also saw some consistent
times in the 200 free, as well as a few firsteseae
son swims with senior Mike Bodzay, sophoe
more Matt O’Rourke, senior Dylan Maus, and
freshman Matt Williams Men’s 100 back saw a
pleasantly surprising 2nd place finish by senior
Eric Grunden, followed closely by Matt Rosene
feld and freshman Kevin BoldtI

The Scarlet Hawks picked it up in the

200 fly with season best times by junior Felipe
Bergh, finishing 2nd, and freshman Tanner
Grieve, finishing 3edI Later in the day, Nicole
Frantz finished 2nd in the 500 free, followed
by two 2nd place finishes in the 100 fly and 400
IM by Aimee Dewante Freshman Kevin Boldt

 

Photo byAimee Dewante

continued to swim strong in his first 400 IM of
the season, finishing 3rd and getting the NAIA
Nationals B cut The 200 freestyle relays ended
the meet and the Scarlet Hawks went back to
Chicago for some welledeserved and much
needed restI

Usha Gilmore named new Women's Basketball coach

Mike Vander Heyden
ILLINOIS TECH ATHLETICS

Usha Gilmore has been named the
head women’s basketball coach at the Illinois
Institute of Technology Gilmore has been an
assistant coach at the University of Illinois
(UIUC) for the past two seasons At UIUC,
Gilmore had a role in recruiting, the develop,
ment of the Illini post players, scouting and
assists with organizing the summer camp

Leading up to her time there, Gilme
ore was at Niagara University where she was
responsible for post player instruction, overall
player development, community service and
team academic advising
She was also the recruiting coordinator for the
Michigan, New Jersey, Philadelphia and New
York City areas

Prior to her stint at Niagara, Gilme
ore spent seven seasons as a collegiate assise
tant coachI In 2008709, she was an assistant
coach at Southern Polytechnic State Univere
sity, a NAIA school outside of Atlanta, and
prior to that she spent time at Davidson Col
lege, Longwood University, Southern Illinois
University and Wagner College Her primary
duties have included coaching guards, recruit,
ing, film exchange coordinator, working as the
strength and conditioning coach and serving
as an academic advisor

Gilmore played her college ball
at Rutgers University under legendary head
coach CI Vivian Stringer A foureyear starter
for the Scarlet Knights, Gilmore helped the
program rise to national prominence by lead,
ing the team to an overall record of 88741 and
three NCAA tournament appearances, in,

cluding a run to the Final Four in 2000 She
was also a Big East Conference AlleRookie
team selection in 19971

Gilmore received a Bachelor of Sci,
ence degree in sociology with a minor in Afrie
caneAmerican studies from Rutgers in 2000

In 2000, Gilmore was a thirderound
pick of the Indiana Fever of the WNBA Dure
ing her season with the Fever, she represented
the organization at over 25 speaking engage,
ments within the community to promote
health and education

A native of Moncks Corner, SICI,
Gilmore was the 1996 Miss South Carolina
Basketball and the 1996 South Carolina Gatoe
rade Player of the Year during her high school
playing days, and recently was a 2012 inductee
into the Berkeley High School Hall of Fame

 

Photo courtesy oflllinois Tech Athletics Department

Premier League Review: Southampton defeats champions

Nathan McMahon
STAFF WRITER

This weekend brought another
round of exciting matches in the premier
league highlighted by Southampton’s upset of
Manchester City Southampton took down last
year’s league champions in 31 fashion with
City looking entirely uninterested in the game
Goals for Southampton came from Jason Pun,
cheon, Steven Davis, and the third was own
goals by City’s Garreth Barry City got their
lone goal from Edin Dzekol Southampton now
has 27 points in their race to remain out of rel,
egation, while City remains in second with 52
points

Swansea City put a thrashing on a
struggling Queens Park Rangers side in a 41
score line QPR got its only goal from Bobby

Zamora, while Swansea got a pair from Michu
and a goal each from Pablo and Angel Rangell
QPR continues its horrid campaign with just
17 points while Swansea has done just the op
posite and sits in seventh with 37 points

A 10 man Arsenal side got three
points in their match with Sunderland that
ended 10 ofi’ a Santi Cazorla volley for the
gunners Arsenal is just four points out of the
top four with 44 points while Sunderland still
has 29 points Reading dropped three points
in their loss to Stoke City that they despere
ately need in order to separate themselves
from the relegation zone The match ended
21 with Stoke getting goals from Robert Huth
and Cameron Jerome while Reading got its
goal from Adrian MariappaI Stoke now has 33
points while Reading has just 23 and remains
in the relegation zone

The match between Fulham and
Norwich ended in a scoreless draw, giving a
point to each team in need of it Both sides sit
with 29 points Chelsea avenged their loss last
week with a dominating 41 win over Wigan
Athletic Goals came from Ramires, Eden Haze
ard, Frank Lampard, and Marko Marin while
Wigan got its goal from Shaun Maloney Frank
LampardZEs goal was his 198th of his Chelsea
career and moved him ever closer to the record
of 202 by Bobby Tamblingl

A pair of goals by Garreth Bale gave
Tottenham hotspurs a 21 win over Newcastle
United including a miraculous free kick that
was the game winner The magpies got their
lone goal from Yoan Gouffran Tottenham
remains in the top four with 48 points while
Newcastle continues to slide down the table
with just 27 points and just two spots out of

relegationl

The match between Aston Villa and
West Ham United ended 21 with all three
goals coming in the last 20 minutes of play
Villa got its goals just four minutes apart from
Christian B enteke and Charles N’Zogbia in the
74th and 78th minute respectively while West
Ham got a goal in the 87th minute from Ashe
ley Westwoodl Villa has left the relegation zone
with 24 points, but remain just a point out of it
while West Ham sits with 30 points

Manchester United extended their
lead at the top of the table with a 20 win over
Everton. Goals came from Ryan Giggs and
Robin Van Persie who leads the goalscoring
charts this Premier League season United now
has a 12 point lead over Manchester City with
65 points while Everton is near the top four
with 42 points

Student Athletic Advising Committee's first lock-in successful

Roma Mirutenko
STAFF WRITER

The Student Athletic Advising Co,
mity (SAAC) hosted its first lockein at Keate

ing sports center this semester The lock in
was used to raise money for the Play for Life
programl Play for Life is a nonprofit organi
zation that targets aterisk youth and tries to
build stronger communities The goal for the
evening was to raise as much money as pos
sible for this organization, and at the end of

the night the total was $2601 This is enough
money to send two children to summer camp

During the lock in, Illinois Teach
athletes played different sports with the stue
dent body Basketball, volleyball, and zumba
drew the biggest crowds of the night We
thank everyone who participated in this event

including the athletes, coaches, and the stu
dent body

Look out for the next SAAC event,
and if you are interested, please go to the athe
letic office to purchase Illinois Tech athletic
gear