Knox in the News

From WGIL radio:

Knox College’s Arielle Dorman has been named to the 2009-10 All-Midwest Conference Women’s Soccer Second Team.

The freshman forward from from Bothell, Washington (Inglemoor High School) led the Prairie Fire in goals, points, shots, and shots on goal. She also finished the season second on the team in assists. Dorman is the first women’s soccer player from Knox to be honored on any All-Conference team in ten years, since 1999.

This season the 5′9″ forward finished fifth in the Midwest Conference in goals (13) and finished sixth in the conference in points (31). Dorman cemented her place in Knox College women’s soccer history, as she is now the school record-holder for goals in a season by a freshman and she tied the record for most points in a season, while also finishing second all-time for assists (5) by a freshman in a single season.

From WGIL radio:

Emilie Perrot, a junior from Bescancon, France (Jules Hagg), has been named the Midwest Conference female swimmer of the week for her record-setting performance at the Monmouth Invitational on November 14th.

Perrot led the Prairie Fire women’s team to a first-place finish out of the eight-team field that included conference rivals Monmouth and Illinois College.

Perrot, swimming in only her second collegiate meet, won three individual events and was a member of the 400 Freestyle relay team that finished in second - setting new school records in each event.

Perrot began the meet by swimming the 400 yard individual medley, breaking the 23-year old school record with her time of 4:45.38. She shaved more than ten seconds off of the previous record of 4:55.50.

Perrot followed that up by taking first-place in the 100-yard backstroke, breaking her second school record of the meet in the process. Her time of 1:03.98 in the 100 backstroke was less than a second quicker than the previous school record of 1:04.78.

From the Register-Mail:

Lexie Frensley was stationed behind the counter, between the espresso maker and a refrigerator filled with gallon jugs of milk.

The coffee aficionado knows Lexie as a barista.

“I’m a junior at Knox College,” the 21-year-old explained. “I’m from Murfreesboro, in Tennessee.

“It’s a city of just over 100,000, so Galesburg has definitely been an adjustment. There’s not as much traffic, that’s for sure. Here, you can get from one side of town to the other in 10 minutes.”

Lexie wore a plaid flannel shirt, ready for the Midwest’s chill.

“I was looking to get out of the South and the Midwest is not too far away. One of the reasons I came to Knox is the lure of Chicago — it’s only three hours away.”

Lexie smiled.

“I wanted a new perspective. My parents got divorced about 19 years ago and my mom is very Southern Baptist. I was raised ‘Yes ma’am, no ma’am. Yes sir, no sir’ at home. It is a very conservative household.”

The barista shifted and leaned against the counter. The coffeehouse and tearoom’s patrons were quiet, plugged into laptops or engrossed in books.

“I’m not a Southern Baptist. I know this is cliché to say, but I think I’m more spiritual than religious.

From Indiana University:

A study co-authored by a professor in Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business suggests that fans do have a great impact on games and that officials often are not objective in their efforts to be fair to both teams.

An examination of 365 major conference games played during the 2004-05 college men’s basketball season found a clear pattern of an increased probability of a foul on the team with fewer fouls, the visiting team and the team that is leading.

“Whether consciously or subconsciously, officials seem to show a pattern where they try to make the number of fouls called on each team come out approximately even,” said Kyle J. Anderson, a visiting assistant professor of business economics at Kelley-Indianapolis. “That is seen as being objective or fair.

“We had suspected that, having played and watched basketball,” he added. “But once we started to run the data, I think the magnitude of the effect was much more than we had ever anticipated. We thought that this was going be a very small effect.”

Anderson and his co-author, David Pierce, an assistant professor of sport administration at Ball State University, published their findings in the Journal of Sports Sciences earlier this year. Both have ties to the game — Anderson played collegiately at Division III’s Knox College and Pierce has done some local officiating.

From the Register-Mail:

The sunshine in Galesburg was pretty much gone by noon Saturday, but the relatively mild temperatures still helped the Community Food Drive for FISH. Galesburg Broadcasting and United Parcel Service teamed up from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. to fill up four of UPS’ “Big Brown Trucks” with non-perishable food items for the food pantry…..

“This truck was full when I got here,” he said. “We’re stocking up for the holidays.”

Help for Robinson was on the way, but he said he didn’t want to wait and let too much food stack up before other FISH volunteers began taking the items to the pantry.

“The plan was to start at 2 p.m., but I said ‘I can’t wait that long.’ You can’t predict the flow,” he said.

For example, he said things were busy early at Hy-Vee on Henderson Street and slow at Wal-Mart but then picked up at Wal-Mart.

Robinson said recent food drives by Knox College, Nielson School, Wal-Mart and Mabel Woolsey Elementary in Knoxville have helped restock the shelves at FISH. He showed a reporter a 10-by-20-foot room where the items from Saturday’s food drive were being stored. About one-fourth was filled by about 12:15 p.m., with many wooden pallets waiting for more boxes.

“This will be stacked to the ceiling, front to back, when we’re done,” Robinson said.

From the Register-Mail:

The Knox College swim team will participate in the fourth annual Ted Mullin “Leave it in the Pool” Hour of Power Relay for Pediatric Sarcoma Research, sponsored by the Carleton College swimming and diving teams Tuesday.

The Knox “Hour of Power” will run from 5-6 p.m. The swimmers will enter the pool at 5 p.m. where they will be divided into four lanes. Each swimmer will swim all out for 30 seconds to two minutes, depending on the distance they are going and then handoff to the next swimmer.