As fall sports start up for the 2024 season, here are 10 athletes to keep an eye on during their respective seasons.
Football:
Pierce Holley
The graduate quarterback from Arvada, Colorado,...
The female Panther of the Week is going to Mackenzie Aldridge from the track team.
The senior distance runner from Crystal Lake set the second-best time in program history for the women’s 5,000-meter...
Eastern’s women’s cross country have proven throughout the year that they are a winning team. They won the EIU Walt Crawford Open, placed fourth out of 12 in the Redbird Open, and won the Ohio...
The Eastern cross-country teams swept the Ohio Valley Conference Cross-Country Championship last Saturday in Morehead, Kentucky. This was the second year in a row that both teams won the conference...
The male Panther of the Week is going to Blake Ruffin from the football team.
The redshirt sophomore safety from Louisville, KY provided a game clinching interception to help the Panthers beat the Northwestern...
Aidan Cusack, Sports Reporter
• September 14, 2023
The women’s cross-country team for Eastern is looking to continue their winning streak at the Illinois State Redbird Invitational on Friday.
The Panthers won the Walt Crawford open last...
Aidan Cusack, Cross Country Reporter
• September 1, 2023
The Panthers' cross-country teams ran at the EIU Walt Crawford Open on Friday afternoon.
Eastern’s women’s team finished with a score of 27, beating Indiana State, Vincennes, and Kaskaskia...
Cross Country
Adam Swanson, the fifth-year graduate from Carpentersville is coming back for another season with the Panthers. Swanson was named first-team for the Ohio Valley Conference for the 2022...
![[Thumbnail Edition] Senior tennis player Luisa Renovales Salazar hits the tennis ball with her racket at the Darling Courts at the Eastern Illinois University campus in Charleston, ILL.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Tennis_01_O-1-e1741807434552-1200x670.jpg)
![[Thumbnail Edition] Eastern Illinois University baseball's hitting coach and recruiting coordinator Mike Pugliese urges players on the team to increase their effort after a slow start to its pregame routine at the team's first intrasquad scrimmage of the season at O'Brien Field on Jan. 31, 2025.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/BB_02_O-1-e1741909628540-1200x702.jpg)
![[Thumbnail Edition] Senior right-handed pitcher Tyler Conklin pitching in the Eastern Illinois University baseball team's intrasquad scrimmage at O'Brien Field in Charleston, Illinois on Jan. 31.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/TC_01_O-e1741567955534-1200x669.jpg)
![E[Thumbnail Edition] Eastern Illinois softball freshman utility player Abbi Hatton deciding to throw the softball to home plate in a fielding drill during softball practice at the field house in Groniger arena on Tuesday Feb. 11.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/SB_03_O-e1741208880750-1-e1741209739187-1200x815.jpg)
![The Weeklings lead guitarist John Merjave [Left] and guitarist Bob Burger [Right] perform "I Am the Walrus" at The Weeklings Beatles Bash concert in the Dvorak Concert Hall on Saturday.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/WL_01_O-1200x900.jpg)
![The team listens as its captain Patience Cox [Number 25] lectures to them about what's appropriate to talk about through practice during "The Wolves" on Thursday, March 6, in the Black Box Theatre in the Doudna Fine Arts Center in Charleston, Ill.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/WolvesPre-12-1200x800.jpg)
