March was all about extremes—from warm, sunny days we all needed after the late February snowfall, to dreary, grey skies and weather during Spring Break. But with spring showers come beautiful flowers, and USI rejoiced in seeing campus blooms spring up.
Spring Break week this year was a grey, chilly seven days. By the time students returned to campus, however, the daffodils finally pushed up out of the cold earth, and the trees exploded into shades of pink and white blooms.
When dinosaurs roamed the Rec!
Phenomenal Women celebrated
For the last 20 years, the University of Southern Indiana Multicultural Center has celebrated Women's History Month by bestowing Phenomenal Woman honors on members of the USI and Evansville communities. Each woman was selected based on the outstanding service she provided to her community over the years.
After Spring Break, campus finds itself in the seventh inning stretch of the semester— students buckle down in the classroom as they prepare for the inevitable finals inching closer and closer. The Class of 2022, however, may battle senioritis, thoughts of tulips, hammocks, spring drinks at Starbucks and graduation.
Strength on the field
Head Coach Sue Kunkle began her 21st year at the helm of the USI Softball team by celebrating her 600th win with a victory over the Quincy University Hawks on opening day.
In 2018, Kunkle led the Eagles to their first-ever NCAA II National Championship. Her squad was 27-22 overall and 15-13 in the GLVC that season before erupting in an unprecedented run. This run led the Eagles to go 14-1 in the postseason, capturing their first GLVC Tournament title since 1998, their second straight NCAA II Midwest Region title and USI's first-ever team national championship in a women's sport.
Additionally, Kunkle became the first coach in history to surpass the 500-win plateau at USI when the Eagles defeated Indianapolis in the first round of the 2018 GLVC Tournament.
The boys of summer, USI Men's Baseball, started their GLVC season on Friday, April 1 at home. Keep up with their 2022 season by checking out the schedule linked below.
The Screaming Eagles Men's Basketball team ended their 2022 post-season in March; they advanced to the GLVC quarterfinals but fell to Missouri-St. Louis.
Two first-half runs by the opposition proved to be too much for USI's Women's Basketball to overcome as they suffered a 75-63 setback to No. 15/18 Walsh University in the opening round of the NCAA Division II Midwest Region Tournament on March 11. This year marked the 12th time USI Women's Basketball qualified to play in the NCAA tournament.
The "Lenny, Mitzi, and Co-Conspirators" exhibition was featured in the McCutchan Art Center/Pace Galleries through February and March. The gallery highlighted the work of Professor Emeritus Lenny Dowhie, now the Director of the New Harmony Clay Project (NHCP). The majority of the displays were devoted to a retrospective collection of Dowhie's ceramic work, including both functional and sculptural pieces from throughout his long career.
This exhibition also featured work by Mitzi Davis, NHCP Program Manager, showcasing her recent functional work. Other creators featured in the galleries during the exhibitions included Vlad Basarab, Blayze Buseth, Tristyn Bustamante, Donna Causland, Katie Chandler, Alexis Dahl, Sydney Ewerth, Misty Gamble, Lene Graversgaard, Krestine Harboe, Jeremiah Ibarra, Xiao Jiang, Morgana King, Marina Kuchinski, Mark Lyman, Anne Mezsko, Yoko Sekino-Bove, Kritika Soni, Tony Treadway, James Lee Webb and Kari Woolsey.
The threat of storms didn't keep the University and Evansville communities from welcoming Apple Computer, Inc., co-founder, Steve Wozniak to campus the evening of March 30. Wozniak was the fifth speaker in the University’s Romain College of Business Innovative Speaker Series.
Credits:
Barbara J. Goodwin