After 16 years of hard service, the concession trailer at the Owl Athletic Complex was looking pretty shabby. So KSC athletic director John Ratliff struck a deal with Keene Auto Body’s Steve Piispanen, who gave the trailer an eye-catching facelift. Look for it when you attend a home game this spring.
The Little East Conference has awarded Keene State College its 2010–11 Presidents Cup, honoring KCS as the top academic institution in the LEC. The Owls racked up a cumulative grade point average of 3.06. And it’s not all brains and no brawn, either. KSC has also captured the Little East Commissioners’ Cup as the top overall athletic department in the conference circuit for the past 11 years.
KSC forward Rashad Wright
KSC basketball forward Rashad Wright was among the “Faces in the Crowd” in the Feb. 20 issue of Sports Illustrated. He was nominated following his outstanding performance in the stunning upset against the No. 1-ranked Middlebury College in January. Read all about it (and see the game video).
About 10 years ago, while he was developing a course at University of Illinois Chicago, Michael Antonucci, associate professor of English and American studies, stumbled upon an old and dusty copy of Frank J. Basloe’s I Grew Up With Basketball: Twenty Years of Barnstorming with Cage Greats of Yesterday, then long out of print. Basloe (1887–1966) was born in Hungary and immigrated as a child with his family to the United States in the late 19th century.
“It’s a great American coming-of-age tale in which a Jewish immigrant becomes (in his words) ‘a toned American’ through the new game called basketball,” explained Dr. Antonucci. “From this perspective, the text gives scholars and students a great snapshot of the US in the early 20th century. Trains, cities, towns, games, work, and the hustle are present throughout the text.” Realizing that the book had real value for his work in American studies at KSC, Dr. Antonucci tried using a pdf copy of I Grew Up With Basketball as a text it in his class. Obviously, that was far from an ideal solution, so he proposed that the University of Nebraska Press reprint the book, for which he wrote a new introduction.
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The newest KSC Hall of Famers: (L-R) Meghan McLoughlin, Wilson Perez, Raymond “Lippy” De Rocher, and Michelle Mason (Debbie Higgins was unable to attend)
Though winter wasn’t particularly cooperative for the Campus’ recent Winterfest weekend, spirits were high in the Alumni Center’s Centennial Hall for the Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame ceremonies on Feb. 4th. The new Class of 2012 includes Raymond “Lippy” De Rocher ’64 (baseball), Debbie Higgins ’76 (basketball), Wilson Perez ’03 (cross country/track), Michelle Mason ’05 (soccer and lacrosse) and Meghan McLoughlin ’05 (softball).