Eagle Sports Tips & Tales: Aug. 24-30
Fall semester classes and sports are now in full swing! Get the scoop on the top sports storylines this week at Eastern Michigan University.
Fall semester classes and sports are now in full swing! Get the scoop on the top sports storylines this week at Eastern Michigan University.
Meet the five men and women who have been selected via the Eastern Michigan E-Club Alumni Chapter, the official varsity athletic letterwinners club, as the latest inductees into the school’s Hall of Fame. All are set to be honored during the Hall of Fame ceremony on Oct. 10, 2025, in the George Gervin GameAbove Center.
Sue Parks, a member of the Eastern Michigan Athletics Hall of Fame, announced on Aug. 7, 2025, that she will be stepping down from her full-time role as Women's Cross Country Head Coach and Women's Track & Field Associate Head Coach at the conclusion of the 2025-26 outdoor season.
Five men and three women in the Eastern Michigan track and field program will fly the flag for the green and white in Jacksonville, Florida, later this week. Gabe Singh, Brendan Hill, Lucky Fiaku, Jake McEachern and Kian Wiles headline the men’s Eagles that will compete in the NCAA East Prelims that begin the morning of May 28, while Micah Martin, Saraiah Walkes and Isabella Brent will lead the women into competition beginning May 29.
The bronze medalist in the 2022 World Indoor Championships and seventh-place finisher in the Tokyo Olympics returns to Eastern Michigan for the Bob Parks Memorial.
Josephine Oloye, a Sophomore from Nigeria, sets the Eastern Michigan school record in the 300-meter dash.
Johnson Takes fourth place in the hammer throw to lead four Eastern Michigan at the U20 World Athletics Championships in Peru.
EMU Track and Field alum Donald Scott is headed to the 2024 Paris Olympics.
EMU athletes set outdoor personal records in 18 different instances throughout the two meets and also had 13 different first-place finishers in their respective events.
Eastern Michigan had runners in the women’s 800, 1500, 5000, and 10000 meters, while having runners in the men’s 800 and 1500 meters. There were also two events that the Eagles had athletes in that covered the field side of things, which were the men’s long jump and triple jump.
Eagle athletes went on to place in the top five in numerous events, including Gabriel Singh (Toledo, Ohio) in the 400m hurdles, Ryan Johnson (Springboro, Ohio) and Jake McEarchern (Lloydminster, Alberta) in the hammer throw, Alex Thompson (St. Catherine, Jamaica) in the long jump, and Mariia Yelanska (Dnipro, Ukraine) and Kyra Buffen (Columbus, Ga.) in the Triple Jump.
Marchant took home three gold titles, MAC Freshman of the Year, and Most Valuable Performer after her wins in the 800m, mile run, and 3,000m run. The Eagles have now captured back-to-back Mid-American Conference titles and its 93rd in program history.
The Eastern Michigan University Track and Field teams took first place in four field events and topped eight track events as they hosted the Bob Marks Memorial Meet inside Bowen Fieldhouse for the first time since 2020.
The sixth official installment of The Eastern Echo's Eagle Sports Tips and Tales highlights the latest happenings around EMU athletics.
In an interview with EMU track star Callum Robinson, he goes over the roots of his passion for running, tracing it back to his parents' collegiate track and field legacy. He highlights his strengths and weaknesses and what he needs to do to prepare for his next competition in Paris.
Read the very first mailbag of The Eastern Echo done by Sports Editor, Blake McQueary, as he answers EMU sports fans’ questions.
EMU saw strong performances from student-athletes in three events in California over the weekend.