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Vincennes University is Offering Students Free help filling out FAFSA at College Goal Sunday
No. 5/13 IUSD Ready for Regular Season Finale in CBAC
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana swimming and diving will conclude its regular-season slate Friday (Jan. 28) when it hosts in-state opponent Evansville for a dual meet inside Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center.
“We look forward to hosting Evansville on Friday,†head swimming coach Ray Looze said. “This will be a great final tune-up as we prepare for the Big Ten Championships.â€
The Hoosier men are 8-0 in dual meets this season while maintaining a streak of 14 straight dual meet victories going back to 2019.
MEET INFO
Friday, January 28 | 2 p.m. ET
Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center • Bloomington, Ind.
Opponent: Evansville
Live Results (Swim): https://bit.ly/3a9t16V
Live Results (Dive): https://bit.ly/3AzWSlf
Live Stream: https://bit.ly/33MjJhP
SCHEDULED EVENTS
Diving: Platform, 1M, 3M
Swimming: 200 Medley Relay, 1,000 Freestyle, 200 Freestyle, 100 Backstroke, 100 Breaststroke, 200 Butterfly, 50 Freestyle, 100 Freestyle, 200 Backstroke, 200 Breaststroke, 500 Freestyle, 100 Butterfly, 200 IM, 200 Freestyle Relay
OF NOTE…
GILLILAND GARNERS THE BIG TEN DIVER OF THE WEEK AWARD
Indiana sophomore diver Tarrin Gilliland was named the Big Ten Diver of the Week following her superb performance in IU swimming and diving’s win over Purdue last week, the conference office announced on Wednesday (Jan. 26). Gilliland won both women’s diving events, the Platform dive and 1-meter dive, while earning NCAA Zone Qualifying scores in both. Gilliland is the ninth Indiana athlete, fifth Hoosier diver and third IU women’s diver to win a Big Ten weekly award this season. IU athletes have combined for 15 such awards over six weeks of eligibility.
The NCAA’s reigning Platform champion showed her prowess once again, winning the event with an NCAA Zone Qualifying score of 304.58; a score nearly 20 points greater than the second-place finisher. On her fourth dive, Gilliland beautifully executed an inward 3 ½ somersault tuck from 10 meters to score a 74.40. She followed with a back 2 ½ somersault, 1 ½ twist pike that resulted in a 69.60 for her final dive.
Gilliland followed with a victory in the 1M with a 316.85, her second-best score of the season. Her best dive came in her second attempt as she converted a forward 2 ½ somersault pike into a 56.55. She finished well, scoring 49.50 and 54.38, respectively, on her final two dives.
HOOSIERS COMPETE FOR U.S. NATIONAL TEAM
The IU swimming and diving program sent 13 current, former, and Indiana Swim Club trainees, and two coaches to the Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo. The athletes returned with 11 medals. Three Hoosier Olympians, Michael Brinegar, Andrew Capobianco and Tomer Frankel, are on the roster for the 2021-22 campaign. Capobianco earned silver in the 3M Synchro Springboard.
Six swimmers with Indiana ties have been named to the 2021-22 U.S. National Team roster: Zach Apple, Blake Pieroni, Lilly King, Annie Lazor, and current Hoosiers Michael Brinegar and Mariah Denigan.
Five Indiana divers – Andrew Capobianco, Tarrin Gilliland, Kristen Hayden, Quinn Henninger, and Carson Tyler – qualified for the FINA World Championships from their performances during the 2021 USA Diving Winter National Championships in December that took place inside IU’s home facility, Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center.
The University of Southern Indiana College Of Liberal Arts To Virtual Faculty Colloquia
The University of Southern Indiana College of Liberal Arts will host its second virtual Faculty Colloquia presentation of the Spring Semester featuring Robert Dickes, Assistant Professor of Photography and Digital Imaging, at 3 p.m. Friday, February 25. The public can attend the presentation, “Americana Revisited: A Portrait of Contemporary Society†by visiting USI.edu/lafc to find the webinar link. The presentation will also be live-streamed on the College of Liberal Arts Facebook page and uploaded to the College of Liberal Arts YouTube.
Dickes’ presentation is inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter, the 2020 United States presidential election and many other notable events which occurred in 2019 and 2020. “While in lockdown, I was motivated by the work of Norman Rockwell and how he illustrated the idealism of American middle class in the 1930s through 1970s,†Dickes says. “In my case, I want to look at what is real modern-day America. Not with rose-colored glasses, but with a sense of reality. My goal is not to politicize these issues, but to stand neutral and be observant of what I am seeing.â€
This presentation is part of the Spring 2022 Liberal Arts Faculty Colloquium. Each Fall and Spring Semester, USI faculty members from the College of Liberal Arts present individual, free public lectures featuring their current research. To see the current lineup of speakers for this semester, visit USI.edu/lafc.
For more information, contact Dr. Quentin Maynard, Assistant Professor of Social Work, at 812-465-1003 or qrmaynard@usi.edu.
FOOTNOTE: Founded in 1965, the University of Southern Indiana enrolls more than 9,750 dual credit, undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students in more than 130 areas of study. A public higher education institution, located on a beautiful 1,400-acre campus in Evansville, Indiana, USI offers programs through the College of Liberal Arts, Romain College of Business, College of Nursing and Health Professions and the Pott College of Science, Engineering, and Education. USI is a Carnegie Foundation Community Engaged University and offers continuing education and special programs to more than 20,000 participants annually through Outreach and Engagement. USI is online at USI.edu.
INDIANA LAUNCHES GRANT PROGRAM TO ADDRESS HEALTH ISSUES
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EPA Administrator Regan Announces Bold Actions to Protect Communities Following the Journey to Justice Tour
Initial set of steps includes multiple actions to protect public health and community specific deliverables
WASHINGTON (Jan. 26, 2022) – Following through on his commitment to action during his Journey to Justice Tour, US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael S. Regan announced today the first in a series of actions responding directly to concerns of communities historically and disproportionately impacted by pollution. The actions, which range from policy changes to community-driven efforts, reflect Administrator Regan’s commitment to deliver environmental justice and work towards building a better America, and are part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s whole-of-government approach to addressing these issues in communities that are marginalized, underserved, and overburdened by pollution.
“In every community I visited during the Journey to Justice tour, the message was clear – residents have suffered far too long and local, state, and federal agencies have to do better,â€Â said EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan. “The pollution concerns have been impacting these communities for decades. Our actions will begin to help not only the communities I visited on this tour, but also others across the country who have suffered from environmental injustices.â€
In response to concerns from residents in overburdened neighborhoods, EPA is announcing specific actions in each of the areas that he visited on the tour. In addition, EPA is outlining a series of broad policy actions including:
- Committing EPA to aggressively use its authority to conduct unannounced inspections of suspected non-compliant facilities, as needed to protect public health. When facilities are found to be non-compliant, EPA will use all available tools to hold them accountable.
- Deploying a new program to expand air monitoring capacity, utilizing assets such as the ASPECT airplane, GMAP mobile air monitoring vehicle, and additional air pollution inspectors to enhance enforcement.
- Mobilizing agency resources to invest in community air monitoring to better protect people and public health in vulnerable areas.
- Pressing state and local elected officials to take urgent action to better protect the most overburdened communities.
- Holding companies more accountable for their actions in overburdened communities with increased monitoring and oversight of polluting facilities.
- Applying best available science to agency policymaking to safeguard public health and protect the environment.
In addition to these policy changes, the Administrator has directed his team to work on several steps to address specific community concerns.
USI’s Comastri, Hufnagel Named GLVC Scholar Athletes
EVANSVILLE, Ind.—University of Southern Indiana senior All-American Jennifer Comastri (Indianapolis, Indiana) and junior All-American Noah Hufnagel (Santa Claus, Indiana) have been respectively named the Great Lakes Valley Conference Women’s and Women’s Cross Country Scholar-Athletes of the Year in a vote by the league’s 15 faculty athletic representatives.
Comastri earns her first-career GLVC Scholar-Athlete of the Year honor after winning both the GLVC and NCAA II Midwest Region individual titles. She also was named the GLVC and NCAA II Midwest Region Runner of the Year for her efforts.
The five-time All-American and eight-time All-Midwest Region honoree posted dominating wins at the conference and league meets, finishing both races more than 15 seconds faster than that of the second-place finisher. Her efforts helped USI’s women to a first-place finish at the GLVC Championships and a second-place showing at the NCAA II Midwest Region Championships.
A 2020 kinesiology graduate from USI, Comastri is currently working on her master’s degree in leadership in health services. She racked up a 4.00 GPA in the fall semester and has a cumulative 3.91 graduate school GPA.
Hufnagel earned All-America honors with his 17th-place finish at the NCAA II National Championships this past November. He was fourth at the NCAA II Midwest Regional and second at the GLVC meet, collecting All-Region and All-Conference honors for his efforts.
A kinesiology major with a concentration in physical education, Hufnagel had a 3.88 GPA during the fall semester and a cumulative GPA of 3.64.
Hufnagel was USI’s top performer in all five of the meets he competed in during the fall. He was twice named the GLVC Runner of the Week and finished no lower than eighth in each meet until his 17th-place performance at the national meet.
Comastri is the first USI women’s cross country student-athlete to win GLVC Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors since Emily Roberts garnered back-to-back awards in 2015 and 2016. Hufnagel is the first USI men’s runner to earn the award since Austin Nolan was named GLVC Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
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Responsive employerTrailblazers erase nine-point deficit in final minute to win at Kaskaskia College
he Vincennes University Trailblazers faced a nine-point deficit with 47 seconds to play on the road against the Kaskaskia Blue Devils.
Vincennes ramped up the defensive pressure and forced several turnovers by the Blue Devils, which allowed VU freshman Thow James Biel (Calgary, Alberta) to score eight of Vincennes’ final 10 points as the Trailblazers battled all the way back to take a 64-63 lead with 9.9 seconds to play.
Kaskaskia’s last second attempt missed wide as the rebound rolled out to midcourt when the buzzer sounded as the Trailblazers came away with a 10-0 scoring run in 37.1 seconds to win 64-63.
The game began as a back-and-forth battle with Vincennes leading by one midway through the first half.
Kaskaskia used a 9-2 scoring run to take a nine point lead before The Trailblazers responded to cut the deficit to just six points at the break, as Vincennes trailed 31-25.
The Trailblazers continued to use this momentum to begin the second half, battling back to even the score in the first two and half minutes of the second half.
The Blue Devils responded back on their home floor to outscore the Trailblazers 18-8 to take their largest lead of the game at 49-39.
Vincennes would rally back to cut the deficit to four before Kaskaskia again built their lead back to 10 points late in the second half.
Kaskaskia kept the game at this margin with a basket to take a 63-54 lead with 47 seconds to play.