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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...]

Men’s basketball team looks back on the season and ahead at what’s next

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With the recent success of the men’s basketball team, head coach Owen Handy spoke into the process that led to such a victorious win over Hanover.  Handy explained that the team began the season with a focus on defense because they were offensively a work in progress.  “I feel like, as a team, we have grown in our offensive confidence and we have guys who have a great understanding of what we need to do well in order to be good,” said Handy. Speaking specifically on the … [Read more...]