Season Recaps
Upcoming Special Events
Academic Notes
Coming This Fall
Koty Family Makes Comments Regarding Recovery
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Season Recaps

A ninth-place finish in the triple jump was good enough to earn Eastern Washington University's Kurt Kraemer All-America status March 10 at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Ark.

Jennifer Paluck Earns All-Big Sky Honors for Women's Basketball Team. The junior forward from Twisp, Wash., was voted a first team Big Sky All-Conference selection to highlight the 2000-2001 women's basketball season.

Upcoming Special Events

Eagle Kickoff Golf Classic will be held August 8, 2001 MeadowWood & Liberty Lake Golf Courses. Individual and team entry packages are available. For more information, check out the EWU Athletics website at http://athletics.ewu.edu

Academic Notes

Eastern senior men's basketball player Aaron Olson was selected to the Verizon Academic All-District VIII team voted on by sports information directors. He is the first Eastern player to be selected to the squad since Eastern moved to NCAA Division I in the 1983-84 season.

EWU Student-Athlete GPA Climbs to 3.26 in the winter quarter of 2001, representing a significant increase from the fall quarter when the collective GPA was 3.12. Of Eastern's 242 student-athletes, 92 (38 percent) had at least a 3.5 GPA and 173 (71 percent) had at least a 3.0 mark. A total of 15 student-athletes had a perfect 4.0 GPA last quarter.

Coming This Fall

Football . . . Eagles rely on experienced offense in 2001. The last two years, the Eagles depended on a talented and experienced defense. This year, with eight senior starters lost on defense, the experience is now owned by the offense. Coupled with a new offense predicated on giving more control to the quarterback, the Eagles hope to remain as a championship contender in the Big Sky Conference in 2001.

Ex-NFL quarterback Timm Rosenbach has been elevated to offensive coordinator for the Eastern Washington University football team as he recently became a full-time coach on the staff of Eagle head coach Paul Wulff. Also, Wulff announced that defensive line coach Tom Missel will be assistant head coach as he takes over additional administrative duties to help Wulff concentrate on working with what he hopes will be a new and improved offense for EWU in coming seasons.

Women's Soccer . . . EWU ranks as one of the top ten most improved teams following the best season in school history. Eastern tied for sixth place with the University of Cincinnati with a six game improvement.

Volleyball . . . Eagles try to Earn another NCAA berth as All-Big Sky Conference performers Robyn Felder and Janelle Ruen lead an experienced Eastern squad that returns four starters and four other letterwinners from last season's squad. The Eagles will enter the 2001 season with a school-record 29-match home winning streak.

Koty Family Makes Comments Regarding Recovery

Eastern Washington University student-athlete Kelsey Koty continues to recover from a head injury suffered Jan. 13 at the EWU Early Bird Open Indoor Track and Field Meet at Thorpe Fieldhouse. She spent three weeks in critical condition in the intensive care unit at Deaconess Medical Center in Spokane. On Feb. 13, she was transferred to St. Luke's Rehabilitation Institute to continue her recovery. On March 16, Koty was released from St. Luke's and returned to her hometown of Camas, Wash., to receive treatment on an out-patient basis.

Koty was injured while competing in the pole vault when she fell off the landing pad and her head struck the tartan floor. At a recent press conference at EWU, Koty said, "I will be back. I can only remember the last two weeks, so I would just like to thank everybody who was there the six weeks before that who I don't remember, who came to visit me or were just there in mind. I thank everyone who was hoping I would get better."

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