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Senior Taylor Whitley will be honored on Sunday as she plays her last home game as a Sycamore against Wichita State University (Photo by Maggie Edwards).

THE FINAL STRETCH

Best of the best: Brandon Pounds and Felisha Johnson to compete at USA Indoor Track and Field Championships

Batty Lecture: ISU professor debunks various bat myths as part of university series

Editorial: Campus needs to be more proactive in dealing with the

availability of parking spacesPAGE 6PAGE 2

Women’s basketball to defend Hulman Center two more times this season

(Photo by Mae Robyn Rhymes).

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Forward center Andrea Rademacher and point guard Taylor Whitley play their � nal home game as seniors Sunday against Wichita State.

“All of my seasons have been great,” Whitley said. “It’s been a blessing to play Division I basketball.”

Head Women’s Basketball Coach Teri Moren said the seniors and junior Anna Munn have helped develop a culture of toughness and a very workman-like mentality, getting in the gym early and working outside of practice.

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People often fear and avoid bats, but the small-winged creatures are actually the ones in danger, said Assistant Professor of Biology Joy O’Keefe.

O’Keefe spoke to an ISU audience this week about “Bats in Trouble: The Truth About Indiana’s Bats” and led a discussion about the misconceptions and facts about bats in Indiana and around the world.

“This is my chance to discredit lies that people often attribute to bats, as well as reveal the hard truths that bats have to face such as: wind turbines, white-nosed fungus and potentially pesticides,” O’Keefe said.

O’Keefe, the director of the Center for North American Bat Research and Conservation, said that artists Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selensnick, respect bats, and their interesting portrayal of them inspired her to speak out.

She was motivated to offer this interactive lecture after seeing the artists’ “Lies That Tell the Truth” exhibit in the gallery across the hall.

Her goal was to use the art collection and exhibit to set the stage for others to realize that these creatures are misunderstood and they deserve protection.

The stage was set for O’Keefe’s talk with a reading from Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.” O’Keefe later discredited lies that have been circulated by such stories.

Bats live their life in the “slow lane,” she said. O’Keefe said some of the most common lies told about bats are that

they are blind and ugly flying mice who drink human blood. People also mistakenly believe bats live and hibernate in caves.

On the contrary, bats’ migration and hibernation patterns vary depending on the species, O’Keefe said. Further, there are only three kinds of vampire bats and they only drink animal blood.

O’Keefe said her final objective was to inform people about the hard truths bats have to face.

She discussed how pesticides endanger bats. More research and studies

will have to be completed to see how this may be happening, she said. O’Keefe also said a fungus from overseas, called white-nosed fungus, is

killing several bats in America. Even Indiana Bats have fallen to white nosed fungus. In addition to disease, wind turbines are killing large quantities of bats,

O’Keefe said. “This is very dangerous because we are not really sure how many bats we

have, but they are steadily dying off as a result of these turbines,” O’Keefe said.

Freshman criminology student Patrick Hollcraft, who was attending as an assignment for his political science class, said he found the presentation compelling.

“It was all very interesting, especially the myth and truths portion of the segment,” he said. “I was very interested in the white-nosed fungus that is killing so many bats.”

Jake Pruett, a second-year graduate student, commended O’Keefe and said, “her presentation was very good, and bats really are worth our respect and they are worthy of our protection.”

O’Keefe encourages any art student that wants to do something with bats to visit the North American Center of Bat Research and Conservation because she wants to do everything she can so that bats can be portrayed with a more positive image.

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Assistant Professor of Biology Joy O’Keefe said bats are facing dangers such as pesticides, wind turbines and fungi (Photo courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing).

Bats in trouble:Professor

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ISU Public Safety Briefs

Indiana State University Police discovered a student with marijuana last week.

According to Feb. 22 ISU Public Safety report, the Indiana State University Police were dispatched at 5:19 p.m. to Lincoln Quad where they found Jeremy Birk, 21, of Indianapolis in possession of marijuana.

An officer, who Birk allowed to search his

room, found four clear bags that were full of green plant material that tested positive for marijuana, according to the ISU Public Safety report.

Birk was slated to appear before the Terre Haute City Court on Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. to answer for the possession of marijuana charge.

ISU student found with marijuana

Woman busted for methamphetamine A woman was arrested Saturday by Indiana

State University Police for possession of controlled substances.

According to the ISU Public Safety report, Ashlee M. Melvin, 29, of Terre Haute, was pulled over by an Indiana State University officer after failing to stop at a stop light.

Once she was stopped, she and other passengers were acting suspiciously and

potentially hiding something illegal, according to the report.

Officers then asked to search the car where they found two syringes.

Melvin was arrested and transported to the Vigo County jail, where more drug paraphernalia was located in her belongings.

Melvin was scheduled to appear Monday at 11 a.m. in Vigo County Court.


Indiana State’s Chapter President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and senior business management major Rochelle Hampton believes it is still relevant and necessary to keep dialogue going about racial injustices concerning African-Americans.

February “is about persistence, innovation and empowering the present for the future,” Hampton said.

For Black History Month in February, the organization worked with other student groups including the Mentoring Assistance for Prospective Scholars, the Black Student Union and the Brotherhood of Successful Scholars in an attempt to raise consciousness about the cultural and racial boundaries still present in society.

The NAACP also started a new program to generate awareness.

Hampton said there are plans to set up a texting network that will send facts about lesser-known African-Americans who helped shape American history to those who have signed up.

Hampton said even though the month of February is over, there are still issues that should remain in the

forefront of our minds. “There are three important messages to take away:

Perseverance prevails over negativity, [those feeling oppressed] should have the courage to speak up and [we] need to think outside ourselves,” Hampton said.

According to the NAACP’s website, Black History Month was founded as Negro History Week by Carter G. Woodson in 1926.

He chose the second week in February because it contained the birthdays of both Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.

In the 1970s, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, formerly the Carter G. Woodson Association, extended the celebration to the full month of February.

The February event list at ISU included weeks dedicated to both the NAACP and the Brotherhood of Successful Scholars. Events included Founder’s Day, the Black Leadership Conference and a march orchestrated by Mentoring Assistance for Prospective Scholars to create awareness about racial injustice.

The NAACP is one of the oldest organizations on campus.

It was founded between 1973 and 1974 and is dedicated to promoting diversity across campus.

Joey Armstrong Reporter

Campus organizations take Black History Month beyond February

“There are three important messages to take away: perseverance prevails over negativity, [those feeling oppressed]

should have the courage to speak up and [we] need to think outside

ourselves.”

Rochelle Hampton, senior business management major and ISU chapter

president of the NAACP


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Last Friday, the Indiana State University Board of Trustees approved a 2.5 percent increase on parking fees.

This increase isn’t a big one. The current going rate for surface parking for staff and student parking is $125 and when August rolls around, it will be up to $128.

This slight increase is chump change compared to the jump in fees that happened two years ago. Lori Elkins, assistant director of Public Safety for traffic and parking services, said that the last time permit prices increased, they jumped $40. That happened, she said, because prices hadn’t increased for over six years.

While this increase isn’t too much to drive home about, what is of more concern is the available parking spaces.

President Daniel J. Bradley said in last Friday’s meeting that since we are a landlocked campus, we don’t have very many options for parking besides “expanding to the west side of campus.”

There are six student lots on campus, most of which can be found by various dorms or in front of seemingly random buildings around campus while the seven staff lots are thrown around haphazardly. When one looks at the campus map, it seems clear that ISU was not built with close parking in mind.

This can be a difficult situation for commuter students. The Campus Portrait on the ISU website says that 75 percent of all new freshman live in campus housing, but only 36 percent of all undergraduates end up staying on campus. This means that 64 percent of all students live off campus. That 64 percent ends up commuting one way or another.

If the university is going to keep growing, the space available for parking has to grow as well. ISU students and faculty members are at their limit. With more construction going up, lots are quickly becoming packed and finding a spot before a 10 a.m. class is becoming harder.

Our school has been growing fast and we are trying to keep up. We must be proactive because in the next two years,

campus numbers are expected to grow and buildings completed. Much like the parking garage on Cherry Street that was built as a relief on parking when the college of business moved, the same consideration needs to be taken for other areas on campus. More people means we need more space. There has been talk about renovating this building and the next, but never serious talk about the spaces to keep these people here on campus.

It’s a challenge that our university has had to accept to make way for the massive freshman classes that keep coming in.

In the same Board of Trustees meeting that approved the slight increase in parking, they also approved the demolition of the Statesman Towers. These are the buildings that once housed the Bayh College of Education and the Scott College of Business.

It will take a while for the towers to be brought down, but once they’re gone, couldn’t they just build onto the remote lot and the decal lot that already reside there?

Apparently not.Diann McKee, vice president of business

affairs, finance and university treasurer, said that the university isn’t planning on

adding space for parking. Doing so would be “frivolous.”

Using the available space to extend parking would be frivolous? Then perhaps the property owned north of campus could work just as well.

This idea, unfortunately, has been shot down as well. Bradley said that putting lots north of campus would cause students and faculty to cross the railroad tracks, thus “endangering their safety.”

So, we can park on the opposite side Third Street and walk across four lane traffic coming from both ways, but we can’t walk across train tracks. Interesting.

What the university needs to keep in mind as well is that to be a top dog in the world of colleges, they need to either have more parking lots for more students to park in, or they need to make it so that freshmen can’t bring their cars like Purdue and Ball State.

It would be a bummer for the kids that couldn’t drive, but it would save money in terms of building new parking lots and free up the spaces for students who commute.

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Top: During the Miss Gay ISU pageant Wednesday, contestants showed off their talent, donned elaborate evening wear and answered questions posed by the master of ceremonies. Ruby Lockhart (second from the right) walked away with the title Miss Gay ISU. The event was sponsored by the student organization Advocates for Equality.

Bottom: At Monday’s Miss Black and Gold Pageant, students competed for scholarships offered by the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Junior nursing major Tajah Dickerson, junior psychology major Alexis Hatch, sophomore nursing major Bre’Anna Holmes and junior human development and family studies major Whitney Sculfield matched up for interview, swimsuit, talent and evening gown competitions. Hatch was crowned Miss Black and Gold. (Photos by Kaitlyn Surber)

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Trisha Patel, a sophomore biology student, said she knows people who choose to forego meals throughout the day to be able to drink large amounts of alcohol at night.

The reason behind the practice is to reduce the amount of calories the body intakes so they do “not gain too much weight.”

“I feel as though every time I see her she looks weaker because she doesn’t get the right nutrients throughout the day,” Patel said of her friend.

“Instead, she has convinced herself that she evens herself out by replacing food with alcohol.”

The practice is called “drunkorexia,” a new problem that has arisen among college student in the last few years. The term is a colloquialism that refers to restricting calories or binge eating which means eating more so one can consume more alcohol.

“Drinking on an empty stomach allows alcohol to be absorbed quicker. Without realizing it, your body’s alcohol content is higher, which is toxic,” Jo Skinner, a nurse practitioner for St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital said.

“It’s an easy way to get alcohol poisoning.”

An alcohol related illness isn’t the only thing to worry about when engaging in such behaviors.

“Common side effects [of drunkorexia] include alcohol poisoning that could lead to death,” Skinner said.

“Not to mention impaired judgment, and risky behavior that could result in sexually transmitted diseases or unwanted pregnancy. Long term effects show an increase

in alcoholic cirrhosis and liver failure, requiring a liver transplant at an earlier age.”

According to a study by The Journal of American College Health, this self-imposed disease has become most common among female college students, but sometimes can also be found in males.

Those who indulge in “drunkorexia” experience malnutrition to avoid weight gain. On average, a regular beer contains around 149 calories, and a light beer contains around 110. A shot of 80-proof vodka or other hard liquor typically contains about 100 calories.

Recently, the nation recognized National Eating Disorder Awareness week. According to nationaleatingdisorder.org, the organization’s goal is “to ultimately prevent eating disorders and body image issues while reducing the stigma surrounding eating

disorders and improving access to treatment.”

Common warning signs for those engaging in “drunkorexia” include: avoiding meals, problems getting out of bed, bad skin, general fatigue and other binge drinking effects.

While “drunkorexia” has not been officially considered an

eating disorder, it still raises concern.

“Although to her it seems as though this is perfectly healthy, it is clearly not,” Patel said. “Many girls go through this situation, and it seems like more and more girls on campus are starting to live this lifestyle.”

Students opt to skip meals to consume alcohol, fewer calories

“Drunkorexia” is a term that refers to opting to skip a meal in order to be able to consume large amounts of alcohol (Photo provided by clipart.com).

“Drinking on an empty stomach allows alcohol to be absorbed quicker.

Without realizing it, your body’s alcohol

content is higher, which is toxic.”

Jo Skinner, nurse practitioner for St. Vincent

Indianapolis Hospital

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The Student Government Association at Indiana State University is working to build better relationships with students.

A new initiative titled “What Do You Want Wednesdays” allows the representatives of SGA to interact with students on a one-on-one basis to gather suggestions and answer questions about campus issues.

“What Do You Want Wednesdays” take place every Wednesday at noon. “We normally begin at Public Safety with a golf cart,” said Bethany Alkire, SGA senate speaker and sophomore biology major.

“We give students rides to class and talk to them about their concerns on campus,” Alkire said.

SGA representatives also spend a majority of the time in the HMSU Commons asking students about their experiences at Indiana State.

“One of SGA’s main responsibilities

is to find out what students want and make their concerns heard,” Alkire said.

Alkire said that in previous years the traditional student forum was not successful. Rather than continue to beg students to come to SGA, representatives are now going to students.

“We know that students have concerns about campus, but we can’t progress toward solutions to those concerns until we know what those concerns are,” Alkire said.

Sophomore information technology major Philip Ulrich appreciates the effort.

“SGA strives to make a positive difference on campus, but lacks the feedback necessary to see what is important to students,” Ulrich said. “Every student on this campus has at least one thing that they would like to see changed or improved.”

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As many as 10 million people are suffering from eating disorders.

Sufferers are predominantly women, but disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa can also affect men.

A program held on Wednesday in the Sycamore Lounge called “Love Your Body” honored National Eating Disorder Awareness Week.

The event was sponsored by ISU Student Health Promotion, Residence Hall Association, Student Government Association and the Office of Diversity.

The main event was the showing of a documentary film created by Darryl Roberts titled “America the Beautiful II: The Thin Commandments.”

In the movie, Roberts interviewed many doctors and experts about the “obesity epidemic” facing Americans and how it relates to eating disorders.

Afterward, there was a panel discussion and students asked questions which sparked conversation.

“The program was really good. As long as ISU continues to hold programs like this they will be able to help a lot of people in the future,” sophomore, criminology major Breawna Parton said.

According to the film, America is facing a serious weight problem. Deepak Chopra says the cause of this problem is the overabundance and availability of fast food.

Fast food is cheap and convenient, whereas whole foods that are very healthy also happen to be expensive and time consuming to prepare.

Another contributing factor is the sedentary lifestyle of most Americans who feel they do not have time to exercise.

However, according to the film Roberts found these programs are more successful in causing eating disorders than in resolving obesity.

They simply add to the stigma of weight, emphasizing that everyone should be thin.

Alex Strauss, one of the doctors interviewed in the film, said when these fads fail, people lose confidence in their dieting capabilities.

With little information available on truly healthy dieting, people go to extremes because of all the pressure to lose weight.

They find that not eating works better

than the weight-loss fads and so they become obsessed with not eating.

The Department of Mental Health states that eating disorders result in death more often than any other mental illness. The hardest part of recovery is the denial that there is a problem and the intense fear that they will be forced to gain back the weight they worked so hard to lose.

Roberts came to the conclusion that the key to losing weight and staying healthy cannot be found in a quick diet.

It is important to always be aware of people who are dieting and watching out for signs of an eating disorder, some of which include, skipping meals, making excuses for not eating and persistent worry or complaining about being fat.

Students hold program to promote positive body imageNicole Mercker Reporter

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“Every coach wants to have gym rats on their team—those who come in extra and are examples to the younger kids,” Moren said. “Munn plays roughly 38 minutes a game and she still is in the gym in the arena at 8:15 in the morning spending a half hour to 40 minutes getting shots up.”

Going into their final days competing at the Hulman Center, Rademacher and Whitley both believe being on the team and having the experience of playing for ISU have been the most significant memories of their last four years.

“It’s the memories that we’ve built off the court that have meant so much to us and we are going to continue to hold tightly,” Rademacher said.

Rademacher said seeing her teammates mature both on and off the court has been an awesome experience. She believes it’s great that the girls are becoming more selfless and less concerned with who gets the recognition.

“Next year, there will be a completely different team,” Rademacher said. “I can’t wait to watch the freshmen and sophomores from this year continue to grow, mature and work their way into leadership roles as well as be able to become stronger mentally and physical and move this team to success.”

Whitley is also looking forward to seeing players continue to develop.

“Anna is going to be the team’s lone senior next and she has been in that role this year,” Whitley said. “Pretty much all the younger kids will stand in that role. They are already great players and they are going to improve their game over the summer.”

Whitley said ISU’s program is becoming more and more well known for its defense.

The team is drawing the attention of competitors and universities throughout the Missouri Valley, she said.

In addition to the relationships she has built and the players she’s watched develop, Whitley said she’ll miss the experience of playing in front of her hometown crowd.

There is nothing like playing in the Hulman Center, especially, with the extraordinary support that came from fans and the Sycamore squad, she said. “You really don’t see that in women’s basketball too much.”

Head Women’s Basketball Coach Teri Moren is pleased with the they way the individuals have to come together to form a strong team.

“They really figure it out and find a way to win and they did that just by sticking together,” said Teri Moren, head women’s basketball coach. “When you play as a unit you have to be great connectors, selfless, dedicated to your teammates and that’s something that is really unique about this team.”

The Sycamores have had several winning streaks throughout the 2012-2013 season. The big wins began Nov. 25 over Belmont and continued with the matches against St. Louis, Northern Illinois and University of Illinois at Chicago. ISU’s win over UT Martin resulted in overtime win, 73-71. The Lady Sycamores followed that

win with their largest scoring margin against Chicago State: 69-35. The winning streak came to end after a matchup with Butler.

“One of the things we are good at this year and one of the reasons we had the success we have had is because we have had a tremendous defensive mentality as a team,” Moren said. “We are trying to refocus our attention and get that back. We are going to be able to score, but what we’ve been really good at is getting those stops when we needed to.”

During conference play, ISU began another streak of wins over Creighton, Drake, Evansville and Southern Illinois. Their game against Illinois State ended the streak as ISU fell, 54-63.

The Indiana State women’s basketball team will end their regular season in the Hulman Center this weekend with match-ups against Missouri State Friday, at 7:05 p.m.

Senior players will be honored Sunday while hosting Wichita State at 1:30 p.m.

Senior forward Andrea Rademacher plays her final home game Sunday against Wichita State. (Photo courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing).

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The Indiana State men’s basketball team lost its final home game this week with a loss to Drake University, 67-56.

The Sycamores are now 17-12 overall and 9-8 in the Missouri Valley Conference.

“The game was a little perplexing,” said Greg Lansing, head men’s basketball coach. “That is not the team I watch every day. It’s not the team I’ve seen practice the last couple of days.”

In the first half, the Sycamores picked up an early lead. During a drive down court, junior guard Jake Odum dove

out of bounds to get an open pass to junior guard Dawon Cummings for an assist and three-pointer. At 13:27, minutes of play, the Sycamores managed to establish a lead with the score at 8-6. With a second foul from the Bulldogs, freshman guard Brandon Burnett added to the Sycamore’s score with two free throws. With a defensive stand and offensive drive, ISU extended its lead 12-8.

“We got off to a decent start then I don’t know what happened,” Lansing said.

The Sycamores broke a tie score at 16 late in the first half with a three-pointer from Burnett.

Odum helped widen the newly established lead with a lay-up but a miss attempt at the free throw line made the score 21-19.

Drake quickly took a two-point lead with the score and with 1:26 left in the half, Drake gained momentum ending on a 6-2 run.

The Sycamores ended the first half following Drake, 21-27.

The second half began with an early two points to the Bulldogs with Odum

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following up with a three-pointer. At 17:52, Drake got a block sending the ball out of bounds and putting it back in the Sycamores’ hands for another lay-up, making the score 27-35.

With the clock at 14:21, a play from Cummings and junior guard Lucas Eitel gave ISU an open 3-pointer.

The Bulldogs continued to extend their lead to a 13 points, 30-43. Cummings helped the Sycamores advance closer with two free throws.

Cummings returned to the free throw line only making one point. A block from junior forward RJ Mahurin placed Drake at the free throw line lengthening their lead. A midcourt pass gave Cummings time to

recover the ball back into the Sycamores’ possession, giving them two more points. Freshman Khristian Smith aided the team’s efforts from the free throw line making the score 37-46. Smith also put up a three-pointer with 7:23 on the clock.

Drake widened the gap with more free throw shots. Mahurin put up another 3-pointer as Drake countered with two points. Odum assisted Cummings, as he added two more points to the scoreboard for the Sycamores with 7:30 left on the clock. Drake held an increasing lead over ISU with the score , 46-61. ISU tried to salvage some final points but could not catch back up with Drake.

Junior forward Maany Arop did not play in the game due to a violation of team rules. Lansing said it is an internal situation and refuses to comment on the matter. Odum led the team in points with 13 and with four free throws as Mahurin trailed close behind with 12 points. The Sycamores finished the game shooting 69.9 percent from the free throw line. ISU was 34.8 percent in field goals and 32 percent in three-pointers.

Indiana State closes out their 2013 season Saturday in Evansville, Ind. against the Purple Aces of Evansville University before heading into the Missouri Valley Conference tournament. Tip-off is set for 5 p.m.

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Senior throwers Felisha Johnson and Brandon Pounds will be heading to Albuquerque, N.M., for the USA Indoor Track and Field Championships.

“Johnson and I have worked hard to get to this level and it was nothing easy,” Pounds said. “The opportunity to represent my family, friends, Indiana State and myself is something that I am very proud of.”

Johnson will be representing Indiana State in the women’s 20-pound weight throw with her qualifying mark of 23.06 meters (75’ 8”).

Johnson has led the NCAA Division I standing the entire indoor season with this mark.

The event begins Saturday at 4:05 p.m. “It feels pretty cool,” Johnson said.

“There is really no pressure on us. We are there just to shake things up a little.”

Pounds will be throwing in the men’s 35-pound weight throw.

He is ranked second in the nation with his distance of 22.55 meters (73’ 11.75”). Pounds will compete Saturday at 1:15 p.m.

“I feel that this meet could be used to get the chills out of us as we compete against the best in the USA,” Pounds said.

Pounds said this meet will be a good warm up for the NCAA Indoor Championships.

Onlookers at times don’t realize the pressure that big meets can bring upon an athlete, Pounds said.

“This meet will be challenging but it will also be a good learning lesson, whatever the outcome may be,” Pounds said. “Johnson and I will be able to compete and have fun while also seeing professionals do what we hope to do in our future.”

Pounds and Johnson have the advantage of their coach having had experience at the USA meet. ISU’s track and field throws coach, Erin Gilreath, is a three-time USA indoor champion in the weight throw. She also holds the title of two-time champion in the

USA Outdoor Championships, 2004 U.S. Olympian, 2005 and 2009 World Championship team member and former American record holder in the hammer throw from 2005 – 2012.

Gilreath said, ultimately, this should be a good learning experience for Johnson and Pounds as they prepare for the NCAA national meet.

“I think Johnson wants to throw post-collegiately and Pounds is toying with the idea, so them going to USAs and seeing what it’s all about will be good for them,” Gilreath said. “Additionally, I wanted them to be into the NCAA meet already seeing and competed against the best throwers in the country.”

Thomas Beeler Sports Editor

Johnson, Pounds to represent ISU at national contest

March 1, 2013

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