Crimson Hawks Averaged 16.7 Goals Per Game in Their 5 Interceptions

Page 4 Indiana University of Pennsyl- record of 7-3 and 5-3 in the PSAC. vania athletics have completed their fall The women’s field hockey team sports season. Both men’s and women’s had a record of 12-7-0 in their regular sports teams finished strong, with many season and 7-3-0 in the PSAC. The Hawks’ teams making it to post season and Wrap Up top scorer was Captain Anouk Sickman proved themselves as strong contenders with 19 goals. Sickman, along with Shan- in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Confer- Fall Sports non Sullivan, Casey McGowan, Erin Shirk ence. Football closed their regular- and Sarah Lemieux were named to the Women’s soccer led by Head season play Nov. 12 with a 34-7 win over 2011 All-PSAC First team. The team made GAME ON! Coach Adel Heder and assisted by Howard West Chester. The team had many strong it to the semifinal round of the PSAC tour- Megee had a winning season with an players this year including top-scorer Har- nament but lost 6-0 to Bloomsburg. overall record of 11-4-3. The lady Hawks vie Tuck, who had 9 touchdowns. Quarter- “I’m really proud of all the girls were 9-3-2 in their conference and made back Pat Smith completed 9 touchdown this year,” Sickman said. it to the quarterfinals of the PSAC tourna- passes this season after sitting out last The athletics program now looks ment. Heather Robbins led the team in season for an injury he received to his left forward to their winter and spring sports scores this year with 15 goals. The Hawks hand. Johnny France led the defense with seasons. Crimson Hawks averaged 16.7 goals per game in their 5 interceptions. The team had an overall -By Sarah Burke regular-season play. Two of the team’s players, Melissa Kornock and Heather Robbins have been named to the 2011 Draktronics All-Atlantis Region Squads. Cross Country was another strong performer for IUP sports this fall. Victor Costello finished 12th at the NCAA Atlantic Regionals and Alyssa Taddie was the top finisher for the girls team. The Hawks entered their season with an eighth place ranking for the men’s team in the PSAC Preseason Poll and a ninth place Meet the Players rank for the women’s team. Cross country is coached by Joey Zins. The IUP women’s volleyball team Melanie Simmons talks finished their season with a record of 11- 22 and a conference record of 5-14. The about what it is like being Hawks recently signed three recruits on for the 2012 season: Joie Hrapla, Stepha- a student-athlete. nie kruzynski and Sarah Smiley. On Deck looking ahead Shawna McCutcheon As we move to close this semes- as good on the field as they are in the Baseball is for boys at IUP. The Past. PreseNt. ter, spring is just around the corner and classroom… hopefully they’ll be able to team opens up their season in February ON DeCK we look into the future of sports at IUP, continue that trend. after having a losing season last year. Hard FUtUre. there are a lot of things to look forward work is what they are going to need to the WraP UP Spring athletics show to. Baseball, cross country, golf, lacrosse, Last season, women’s lacrosse pull this next season into a winning one. How did IUP athlet- softball, track & field, swimming, and ten- had a rough road finishing the season Confidence and pride along with that Fall sports at IUP come promise of great nis is what we’re faced with. Most of the with an overall record of 11-7… which hard work should help them pull things ics start and become the athletes who participate in these sports isn’t all that bad… The girls are working around… It’s a wait and see game. to a close. competition and lots of are already gearing up for spring with full toward a better record this coming March Crimson Hawks? enthusiasm. when the games continue in 2012. Round and round we go on the track and field circuit… both men’s and talent. It appears that we have a Swimmers seem to spend their women’s are gearing up for spring when women’s softball team made up of players lives in the water, and IUP has both sexes the games begin in January. Both teams who know how to make the grade. Nine competing in matches throughout the fall have their work cut out for them while members of the team had a GPA of 3.5 or and into the spring semester. The teams running, hurdling, jumping and sprinting. better for the academic year. The team dive into the pool throughout the entire had a winning season last year and have school year, bringing with them a lot of We hope we have given you held tryouts for the new season starting splashing, fun, speed and excitement. a taste of what’s in store for the spring in the spring. Evidentially, they are just semester at IUP. It’s going to be fun! Page 2 Page 3 Past. Present. Future. Meet the Players IUP Athletics History Shawna McCutcheon Melanie Simmons Did you ever wonder what it Latrobe professional team’s foot- Editor, Bob Fulton at the Indiana would have been like to play ball coach to come in and replace Gazette. Fulton states, “ Rooney sports in the 1800s? Well, now is the quarterback. Brallier was was considered for the 1920 Olym- your chance. We’ll be taking you waiting to go to Washington & pic team in Belgium, but turned back in time each month to give Jefferson College in a few weeks it down”. Rumor has it that he you an idea of what it was like to on a full football scholarship and declined to participate in the be an athlete at Indiana University didn’t want to play for Latrobe. Games because he was considered of Pennsylvania. In this introduc- The coach offered him a deal, pay- an amateur in the sport. However, tory issue, we’ll be giving you a ing him $10 a game, plus expenses he fought and beat the Olympic general background on the history causing him to become the first gold medalist before and after the of sports at IUP and one specific openly paid football player. Olympics. sport that was played here. In future issues, we will dive into He agreed and played 2 games In 1964 and 1965, the IUP football each sports history and try to give for the Latrobe team, and then team made it to the PSAC champi- you, our reader, an insight to what went off to college. Brallier had an onship games but lost both times it was like and how things have interesting career as he went from to East Stroudsburg, however, changed. We’ll also give you a few playing football, to concentrating twenty years later, they redeemed players who have stood out and on his studies, back to playing and themselves with back to back gone on to achieving great things then eventually retired and be- PSAC championship wins in 1986 in their lives. came a dentist. He said before he and 1987. The rest of the 1980s, the died in 1960 that he loved the fact 1990s, and into the early 2000s, The school opened in 1875 as that he was one of the first profes- the team did well with making it Indiana Normal School to be used sional football players. He is one of into the playoff seasons. to train teachers. Sure they had the few who has yet to be elected games and recreation, but they into the National Football League Other people worth mentioning drawn to IUP for the intensity of road. But she likes having a set sched- didn’t have organized sports. They Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. throughout the history of IUP the program. She knew at IUP she ule and knowing that she always has For who went on to the pros are: Jim Team. would be challenged every day and a support system with her teammates. had a gymnasium for the students one Indiana University of Pennsylva- There is another interesting Haslett, who played for the Buf- her passion for the sport would be “We all lean on each other,” which had some sporting equip- nia field hockey player, team means person who walked through the falo Bills and the New York Jets; matched by the school’s program. Simmons said. “Win or lose.” ment but not a lot. Fifteen years a sense of community, structure to halls of this school in Indiana, Chris Villarrial, who played for Simmons reflected on this sea- Simmons is looking forward to her later, in 1890, the school had its her day and knowing the girl next son, which came to a close on Oct. off season, a time for training when first organized sport. Football. Pennsylvania and that person was the Chicago Bears and the Buffalo to her has the same goals she does. 28 when the IUP Crimson Hawks the team focuses on skills and con- none other than Art Rooney, the Bills; Mike Jemison, who played Melanie Simmons, a sophomore fell to Bloomsburgh in the semifi- ditioning. She intends to hone her Football back then was nothing founding owner of the Pittsburgh for the New York Giants and and psychology major at IUP, has nal round of the Pennsylvania State skills in preparation for next fall.

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