BLUFFTON, Ohio - A crucial sweep of Transylvania University on Senior Day has the Bluffton University baseball team on the verge of qualifying for its first-ever Heartland Conference baseball tournament! The Beavers finished the regular season with a 21-16 record, including a 9-9 mark in the HCAC.
Bluffton University is searching for a new head coach for its cross country and track and field programs following the retirement of Head Coach Karen Brandt and her assistant coach, Jim Brandt, at the end of June.
“We appreciate Karen and Jim’s leadership since taking over the program in 2011. During that time their teams have shown tremendous growth in both depth and talent.
“Five tons of linen rags would have been needed to make the required 500,000 sheets of paper, which, if stacked, would be taller than the U.S. Capitol building,” said Phillips.
At Bluffton University’s Musselman Library, archivist Carrie Phillips stores seven copies of the 1748 edition of the Ephrata “Martyrs Mirror” in boxes specially designed to keep them preserved.
Bluffton University is searching for a new head coach for its men’s soccer program following the resignation of James Kusak. He has accepted an assistant coach position at the University of Louisville in Kentucky.
“We will begin a search for a new coach in the coming weeks,” said Phill Talavinia, Bluffton’s athletics director. “I wish Coach Kusak all the best.”
Bluffton University will celebrate its annual May Day weekend of festivities May 4-6.
The traditional end-of-the-academic-year celebration intertwines the past by hosting alumni reunions, the present by honoring this year's graduates and the future with first-year students performing the traditional Maypole dance. Classes ending in an eight or three and the class of 2017 will celebrate reunions.
Friday
The events begin on Friday, May 4, with the Juried Student Art Exhibition in Sauder Visual Arts Center. It will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
