Nick Harwell’s Miami University football career is over. Harwell, who was arrested in March after an incident involving a former girlfriend, is no longer a student at the school after going through the on-campus Office of Ethics & Student Conflict Resolution. He has departed as one of the top wide ...
California is beckoning the Miami University women’s tennis team, and that’s just fine with the RedHawks. MU is headed to the NCAA tournament for the third time in five years and learned Tuesday that it will travel to Palo Alto to face Stanford, which is making its 32nd consecutive NCAA ...
For a team that’s losing just one senior to graduation, Miami University will have a much different men’s basketball roster in 2013-14. Drew McGhee announced his intention to transfer to Kennesaw State in early April, noting that he will graduate from MU in August. RedHawks coach John Cooper confirmed Tuesday ...
Football is still a relatively new endeavor for Mitch Winters. That’s not really surprising, given that Winters is the only Canadian on Miami University’s roster. It also means his upside is tremendous. “I was coming in pretty much as a blank canvas, and I think that’s what the coaches liked,” ...
If spring football practice is any indication, Miami University’s defense is on the road to improvement. The RedHawks were among the nation’s worst defensive teams last season, but they’re showing some physical want-to this spring, and that included Saturday’s intrasquad scrimmage at Yager Stadium. “We haven’t really changed much. We’re ...
The meat grinder has produced a Mid-American Conference contender. Miami University’s softball team, under the direction of first-year coach Clarisa Crowell, lost 18 of its first 22 games against a brutal nonleague slate that included Michigan, Louisville, Georgia Tech, San Diego State and Chattanooga. But the RedHawks, 12-20 overall (before ...
Brandyn Cook has started every game he’s played in his Miami University football career. That is a fact, but it’s also misleading.Cook was the starting left guard and a true freshman in the RedHawks’ opener at Ohio State last year, but snapped a tendon in his finger early in that ...
Drew McGhee is leaving Miami University with no hard feelings. After four years in Oxford, he’s a happy guy. “I’ve loved every minute that I’ve gone to school here,” said McGhee, who will graduate from MU in August and complete his collegiate basketball career at Kennesaw State next season. “It’s ...
The Miami University women’s basketball program is heading in a new direction. Athletic director David Sayler announced Thursday that Maria Fantanarosa, who compiled a 237-212 record in 15 seasons as the head coach at her alma mater, has been dismissed with one year remaining on her contract. “You’re at a ...
The sight of Austin Brown in a uniform and pads, running around and playing football, is a welcome thing at Yager Stadium this spring.Brown was supposed to be one of Miami University’s best players last season as a senior, but a back injury ended his year after two games and ...
Austin Boucher has experienced a lot more patience than action the last two seasons with Miami University’s football team. But that’s changing. With Zac Dysert graduating and looking toward a career in the National Football League, Boucher is finally the No. 1 quarterback for the Redhawks, who are starting their ...
In a roller-coaster season, Miami University’s men’s basketball team spent a disproportionate amount of time buried in valleys.The RedHawks finished 9-22 in John Cooper’s first year season at the helm, absorbing 11 single-digit defeats.“As you look throughout the season, there were times when we could’ve had a turning point,” Cooper ...
The Central Collegiate Hockey Association is down to its final few breaths. Disbanding after its 42nd season, the CCHA is hosting its final championship weekend at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit. Miami University will play Michigan (4:35 p.m.) and Notre Dame will meet Ohio State (1:05 p.m.) in Saturday’s semifinals, ...
Alex Wideman is reminded every time he looks at himself and then at the players around him.Success takes work. In his case, more work than most. So be it. Wideman is a proud little guy with a motor.“I’ve always been the small guy,” said the smallest guy on Miami University’s ...
Football is in the air at Miami University, where back-to-back 4-8 seasons have left fans scratching their heads about the direction of the program.Here’s a couple questions/facts to consider as spring practice begins Monday at Yager Stadium:Don Treadwell, beginning his third year at the helm, likes what he has coming ...
It’s time for Miami University’s hockey team to get down to serious business. Rested and recharged after a first-round bye in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association tournament, the top-seeded RedHawks will host Michigan State in a best-of-three series this weekend at Steve Cady Arena. The Spartans, seeded last, went on ...
New life or just the end of the road? Miami University’s men’s basketball team has garnered the last seed for the Mid-American Conference tournament and hopes to extend its season Monday night at Bowling Green’s Stroh Center. The RedHawks (8-21) have lost nine straight games, but not their competitive drive. ...
Allen Roberts has become Miami University’s third knee casualty this season. MU men’s basketball coach John Cooper confirmed Thursday that Roberts will miss the rest of the year with a slight meniscus tear in his right knee. Roberts, a redshirt junior guard from Middletown, is the leading scorer (12.7) for ...
He was the weekly scratch, the non-scholarship freshman that never played.Those memories are enough to let Garrett Kennedy know that he has come a long way within Miami University’s hockey program.“It was tough mentally, but it was something I knew in the end was going to work,” said Kennedy, now ...
Pete Conrad will be remembered as a “gentle giant,” a kind, softspoken man and a journalist who always gave everyone a fair shake. Conrad, editor of The Oxford Press and longtime Miami University sports reporter, died March 4 at University Hospital in Cincinnati. Born March 22, 1956, in Hamilton, Conrad ...
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