The female Panther of the Week is going to Ella Kratochvil from the women's soccer team. The junior goalkeeper from Wind Lake, Wisconsin, kept her sixth consecutive clean sheet in Sunday's 1-0 win over...

Graduate safety Tienne Fridge, is entering his last season with Eastern. Fridge, from Sacramento, California, was on the football, swim and track teams in high school. Fridge swam from age 6 to...

The Eastern Illinois Panthers wrapped up their spring practice Saturday morning at O’Brien Field. The Panthers offense solidified the 43-42 win, with redshirt junior Jesse Lajes scoring the final...

Redshirt junior quarterback Joey Sprinkle is getting ready to go into his second year with Eastern’s program.  Sprinkle, from Monticello, played soccer and baseball growing up and didn’t start...

Redshirt junior linebacker Jesse Garza grew up asking questions about his religion, as his curiosity about God grew when he was in fourth grade. At first, Garza was reading a lot of Percy Jackson books,...

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