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Kelly Waldrup
7.29.2010 | Panther Club
Kelly Waldrup grew up around sports and knew she always wanted to have some form of teaching/coaching in her future career path. Today she does indeed teach and coach, just not in what many consider to be a normal discipline.  She is a Master Sergeant with the Illinois State Police Department, which includes several teaching/coaching opportunities.

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6.16.10 | Panther Club

This year, the Panther Club reached out to the Panthers of yesteryear with a message of unity.  The message was clear: the past, present and future Panther Athletics successes aren't possible without the support of alumni.  In response, hundreds have stepped forward to join TEAM 2010 and to pave the roads towards future Panther wins. 

One of those individuals was C. Nelson Grote.  With his permission, we have shared his letter, sent to the EIU Director of Intercollegiate Athletics, Barbara Burke.  We are thankful for Mr. Grote's - and the hundreds of other alumni that have stepped forward - support.



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6.16.10 | Panther Club
Rural Watseka, Ill., provides the wide, open vastness that allows children – and their fort-building, hide-and-go-seek-playing imaginations – to run wild. The one thing it doesn’t offer is a golf course. 

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6.16.10 | Women's Soccer, Panther Club
Beth (Liesen) Lagunas scored more goals in her stellar four-year career than any other women’s soccer player in the history of Eastern Illinois or the Ohio Valley Conference. Twenty-six of her 62 collegiate goals proved to be the difference in an EIU victory, those 26 game-winners representing another program and conference record.

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6.16.10 | Panther Club
Tom Akers grew up following in the footsteps of his older brother Steve from his days as a high school athlete to his first college choice. For the past 15 years as the head track and field coach at Eastern Illinois, he has established some pretty big footsteps of his own for others to follow.

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5.27.10 | General, Panther Club
The Eastern Illinois Panther Club and Sarah Bush Lincoln Volunteer Guild are teaming together for a women’s wine tour to take place in the heart of the beautiful Shawnee National Forest in Southern Illinois. The event will take place Friday, July 16 with buses departing from the O’Brien Stadium parking lot at 8 a.m. with a scheduled return time of around 9 p.m.

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5.14.10 | Baseball, Panther Club
Eastern Illinois University baseball coach and Panther Club member Jim Schmitz has won the Ohio Valley Conference ‘Coach of the Year’ three times. He has racked up 500 career wins and is the all-time wins leader for the Panther Baseball program. Under Schmitz’s guidance, the Panthers have taken home four Ohio Valley Conference regular season titles, two OVC tournament titles, and two West Division Championship wins when the Panthers were members of the Mid-Continent Conference.

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5.14.10 | Panther Club
In the early 1990s, when her future teammates were playing hopscotch and hide-and-go-seek carelessly, as all children should, she was huddled with her family in a neighbor’s basement while a bomb hit a home mere feet from where she slept each night. Anci Borozan knows a childhood defined by war. Now, thanks to the “jackpot of her life”, as she calls it, her chance at an American education has provided an adulthood defined by opportunity.

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