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 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 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.

From the Register-Mail:

The young team will graduate just three seniors and has no juniors on its roster, so there really isn’t a whole lot for Schrader to talk about, until it comes to Galesburg native Kelly Ricketts and that gets Schrader excited.

The 6-0 sophomore, who transferred to Knox after a year at the University of St. Francis, was the Prairie Fire’s brightest flame, leading the Midwest Conference with 449 kills in 103 games for a 4.36 average and putting her name among the NCAA Division III leaders.

“She made us a better team in every part of the game,” said Schrader, who admitted even she wondered how many matches Knox would have won without her. “She’s a very talented player and makes every player on the team better because of her skill, passion and energy.

It took a year-long sidetrip to an NAIA school — St. Francis in Joliet — before she returned to Galesburg, where she set nine school volleyball records for the Silver Streaks.

“I had no second thoughts.  I love it here,” said Ricketts of the transfer. “I’m so happy.”

From the Register-Mail:

Calvin Zirkle, a junior from Kankakee Bishop McNamarahas been named the Midwest Conference defensive performer of the week for his efforts in Knox College’s 12-7 win over Lake Forest College on Saturday.

It was Knox’s first win of the season.

Zirkle shut down the second-leading receiver in the MWC in Lake Forest’s Dan Carter, and recorded five pass break ups and three tackles.

Zirkle now has 38 tackles for the season, and leads the team with 11 pass break ups.