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Men's track and field sports All-Americans

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The Eastern Michigan men’s track and field distance medley relay team took its school record setting team to the NCAA National Championships over the weekend in Fayetteville, Ark., and came away with a fifth-place finish and All-American honors. “As they now join the elite membership of EMU Track and Field Record Holders and All-Americans,” EMU coach John Goodridge said in a release. The relay team of David Brent, Ackeem Forde, Blake Figgins and Curtis Vollmar ran a time of 9:38.44. “This foursome has been on fire the past month, gaining increased confidence weekly and culminating the past three weekends with this realization and accomplishment of winning a combined four MAC Championships in the mile, 3,000-meter, 5,000-meter and DMR,” Goodridge said. “I’m very proud of these guys for breaking a 15-year-old EMU record, being one of the elite national DMRs in the nation and coming home All-Americans.” The record in mention was broken by the All-Americans March 5 at the Alex Wilson invitational in South Bend, Ind.


Two wrestlers get ready for NCAA championships

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Eastern Michigan University’s Sean Clair and David Wade will be heading to Omaha, Neb., for the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships from March 18-20. Clair is a 133-pound senior out of Turtle Creek, Pa.



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Women lose in MAC quarterfinals

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The Eastern Michigan University women’s basketball team lost to the University of Akron, 72-46, in the quarterfinals of the Mid-American Conference Tournament Wednesday night in Cleveland, Ohio.


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Notebook: EMU faces Akron again

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The Eastern Michigan University men’s basketball team traveled to Akron, Ohio earlier this season to take on a then Mid-American Conference East-division leader University of Akron and won, 62-59.



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Basketball reaches quarterfinals in MAC

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With a career-high 27 points, Cassie Schrock carried Eastern Michigan University to a 66-56 victory over the visiting University of Buffalo on Saturday, helping advance her team to the quarterfinals of the Mid-American Conference tournament. Schrock is now fewer than 50 points away from becoming one of a handful of EMU athletes to score 1,000 career points.


Eagles move on in MAC tournament

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The Eastern Michigan University men’s basketball team is off to Cleveland, after defeating Northern Illinois University, 65-59, Sunday at the Convocation Center in the first round of the Mid-American Conference Tournament.


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Eagles lose MAC West title to Central

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Just outside of his post-game news conference Eastern Michigan coach Charles Ramsey stood, his back against a wall staring blankly and attempting to come to grips with what had just happened.


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Commentary: Tigers' moves dim division title prospects

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The last time we saw the Tigers, they were walking off the field in Minnesota after blowing the Central Division over the last two weeks of the season. The heartbreaking failure down the stretch carried over to the questionable off-season changes made by Tigers General Manager Dave Dombrowski.



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Freshman holds up under pressure

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True freshman Brett Cisper loves pressure. He entered game one of a double header Monday against No. 25 Kansas, in the eighth inning, behind a quality seven-inning, three-hit and one-run start by Corey Chaffins, His job was simple: don’t screw it up.





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Baseball moved to Metrodome

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The Eastern Michigan University baseball team is already having to change its plans, as it will be playing its season opener against Kansas in the Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minn.




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Roundup: Wheatley heading to Syracuse

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Tyrone Wheatley has joined Syracuse’s football team as the running backs coach. He will join coach Doug Marrone’s staff after leaving Eastern Michigan University, where he held the same position for Ron English last season.

Articles featured in this episode:

"Eastern Michigan University adds women's lightweight rowing to sports list in 2026-2027" - Caleb Henderson

"Bits and Bytes 2025 features new technology to inspire middle school girls" - Gabriella Payeur

"'F1' is an action packed, visually interesting movie with an all right story" - Gabriella Payeur

"The Eastern Echo Honored at EMU Board of Regents meeting" - Allie Beecher