SLIAC Weekly Release - Dec. 25th
This week in the SLIAC is a weekly review of the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. It recaps the prior weeks results and highlights upcoming events. You can also find the latest standings, statistics, schedules and awards.
HEADLINES
Spalding President to
be Keynote Speaker at NCAA Convention (December 12,
2013)
A former Division III student-athlete who became the first woman
to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean and one of the first
two women to ski cross country to the South Pole will be the
keynote speaker for the Division III business session at the 2014
NCAA Convention.....MORE
Feature Friday: Getting to Know (December 20, 2013)
This week's Feature Friday video is with Fontbonne University
women's basketball student-athlete Nicole Joerger.....MORE
SLIAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
The SLIAC Players of the Week are honored for their performances during the week. Click on the sport link below to see the full list of 2013-14 Players of the Week. For this week's Player of the Week release - HERE
Men's Basketball- Joe James, Westminster College
Women's Basketball- Caty Eeten, Eureka College
Men's Basketball l Women's Basketball
SLIAC STANDINGS
| Men's
Basketball |
Women's
Basketball |
| School | SLIAC | Overall | School | SLIAC | Overall |
| Westminster | 3-0 | 5-3 | Iowa Wesleyan |
3-0 | 5-1 |
| MacMurray | 2-0 | 5-3 | Eureka | 3-0 | 7-3 |
| Spalding | 2-0 | 4-5 | Webster | 2-1 | 4-3 |
| Webster | 2-1 | 5-4 | Greenville | 1-1 | 4-5 |
| Greenville | 1-1 | 5-3 | Fontbonne | 1-1 | 3-6 |
| Fontbonne | 1-1 | 1-7 | Westminster | 1-2 | 2-5 |
| Iowa Wesleyan |
1-2 |
3-5 | Spalding | 1-1 | 1-5 |
| Eureka | 1-2 | 2-8 |
Principia | 1-2 | 2-6 |
| Principia | 0-3 |
1-7 |
MacMurray | 0-2 | 0-8 |
| Blackburn | 0-3 |
0-9 | Blackburn | 0-3 | 1-7 |
AROUND THE SLIAC
You can follow the Blackburn College Women's Basketball Team
online as they travel to Linfield College over the Christmas Break.
The Beavers will take on the the Wildcats of Linfield College on
Sunday, December 29 at 6:00 p.m. Central time. Live Stats link HERE |
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The Greenville women's basketball team continues their extended
break until Jan. 7 when they will face Eureka on the road.
Greenville's last game was Dec. 14 against Calumet College in the
MacMurray Tournament. The Panthers men's team is back in action on
Jan. 3 against Loras, resuming play for the first time since Dec.
7. |
The spring seasons are just around the corner. This week Iowa
Wesleyan talked with Head Softball Coach Mike Hampton. To watch the
video interview with Coach Hampton click HERE |
The MacMurray men's basketball team will look to snap a two game
losing streak when they face Dallas on Dec. 29 at 3 p.m. They
return to conference action on Jan. 7 against Westminster. The
women's team is on break until Jan. 7 when they face Westminster at
6 p.m. |
The Principia women's basketball team is 2-2 over their last four
games. They return to action next week on Jan. 7 when they host
Webster University at 6 p.m. The men's team is back in action on
Jan. 4 when they host Loras College at 3 p.m. |
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Webster University announced their Hall of Fame class for 2014. It
includes former women's soccer student-athlete Angela Martinez,
former baseball student-athlete Brett Mueller, former softball
student-athlete Gail Vogt and staff member Sue McClintock. For the
full release click HERE |
Westminster men's basketball senior guard Joe James earned SLIAC
Player of the Week honors this week after leading his team to an
83-65 win over Eureka. In the win James scored a game high 20
points, including 12 of his team's first 14 points of the game to
spark the Blue Jays to the win. |
Eureka women's basketball senior Caty Eeten is the SLIAC Women's
Basketball Player of the Week for the second consecutive week.
Eeten averaged 22.7 points, 6.7 rebounds and 2.7 assists over three
games last week. It marks the 10th time in her career she has
earned the honor.
The Fontbonne University athletic department wishes everyone a
Merry Christmas. See their Holiday video 
After a slow start the Spalding men's basketball team has picked
up their play, winning four straight games including a pair of
conference contests against Principia and Iowa Wesleyan. Spalding
off until January 4 when they host Fontbonne University in a SLIAC
match-up.THIS WEEK'S SLIAC SCHEDULE
To see a complete schedule of this week's SLIAC action click HERE
KEEP UP WITH THE SLIAC ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Be sure to keep up with the SLIAC using various social media tools. You can follow us on Twitter (@sliac) HERE or Facebook (St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) HERE
Be sure to participate in our Social Media fun each week with Trivia Tuesday, Throwback Thursday and Feature Friday.
Each Tuesday on Twitter we will ask a SLIAC trivia question where the first person to respond with correct answer wins SLIAC gear!
On Thursday's you can reminisce by looking at old photographs when we remember prior SLIAC Student-Athletes.
Friday's are Feature Friday's where we will get to know our current SLIAC Student-Athletes through a series of video interviews. This past week's Feature Friday video was SLIAC Spotlight with Nicole Joerger (Fontbonne University) Check it out HERE