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Women’s basketball off to a speedy start

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Jon Gin, Head Women’s Basketball Coach, enters his second year at AU with a young team focused on speed. The team rostered 13 freshmen this year, four upperclassmen and a graduate student for a total of 18 players.  “We are young pups, for sure,” Gin said, “But you know, we're energetic because we are so young ... We're all about energy and flying around and trying to create chaos on defense. And hopefully, that leads to fast break points on offense.” Gin emphasizes to his freshmen … [Read more...]

AU Adds Knight to Staff

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Dijon Knight, 35, is joining the AU athletics staff as an assistant coach for the Men’s Basketball team and as the head coach for the Men’s Golf team. Knight replaces former Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach, Carter Collins who was just recently named the Interim Head Coach with Coach Owen Handy’s departure after 10 years at the helm. When asking Knight about his first impressions of Anderson University, he had only good things to say. “My first time visiting and touring campus I was most … [Read more...]

Rock No Longer Ravens’ Head Football Coach

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Coach Rock will no longer continue as head coach for the AU football team. Anderson University Football faces an immediate change in staff as Coach Steve Rock will no longer be the head coach of the program. With four games left in the team’s regular season, Jeremy Lochner will be serving as the interim head coach. This new position will be added to Lochner’s previous role as the football Defensive Coordinator.  Rock has been at AU for the past four seasons, the 2022 season beginning … [Read more...]

Men’s basketball announces change in coaching staff

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On Monday, August 29th, Anderson University Athletics announced that the Men’s Basketball Head Coach, Owen Handy, had resigned and Assistant Coach, Carter Collins, would serve as the Interim Head Coach for the 2022-2023 season. Collins will be entering his sixth year at AU, coaching under Handy for the past five years. Collins said, “The most important thing that he [Handy] did while he was here was making strides in the program.” Collins sees this as an opportunity to continue making sure … [Read more...]

Coach Carter Collins

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Growing up, Carter Collins had a love of sports thrown at him from both sides of the family. On his mom’s side, it was golf. On his dad’s side, basketball. An unlikely pairing, but Collins found himself fascinated by both sports: one a fast-paced, high-action contact sport with running, jumping and dunking, and the other an intensely slow game of precision and aim. Thus, it was likely no surprise to anyone when Collins, who was already the assistant head coach for Anderson University’s Men’s … [Read more...]

Marching to a new beat on campus

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Next fall, the School of Music at Anderson University is starting a new way to connect with students across campus. Anderson’s Music Education Department is offering a drumline class at the start of the 2022-2023 school year.  Adam Waller, the assistant professor of instrumental music education and the director of bands at Anderson said, “I know a lot of students were involved in that activity in high school, but may not want the structure and rigor of a music degree.”  The drumline … [Read more...]