Picture Gallery Welcome Again BBQ (by Sandy King)

Jap Illinois Athletics held its annual Welcome Again BBQ for student-athletes, coaches and employees on Sunday evening because the semester formally kicked off with lessons immediately (Monday, Aug. 19).  On the annual occasion EIU awarded its EPIC Trophy for the season whereas recognizing the 4 groups that captured Ohio Valley Convention Championships final season.
 
This 12 months’s EPIC Trophy Award winner was Girls’s Basketball, marking the second straight 12 months this system has received the award and third time total.  The highest three groups in EPIC factors this 12 months have been 1.) Girls’s Basketball, 2.) Girls’s Soccer and three.) Males’s soccer.
 
The 4 OVC Championship groups from final faculty 12 months have been males’s cross nation, ladies’s cross nation, volleyball and softball.
 
This additionally marked the second 12 months the OVC additionally started honoring Group Service Award winners from every league establishment with this 12 months’s winners from EIU being Chad Smith from males’s soccer and Liz Galvin from ladies’s soccer.
 
Within the class room EIU once more excelled within the OVC with 41 Educational Medal of Honor Award winners.  EIU had two groups win OVC workforce educational awards with ladies’s soccer and ladies’s observe & area profitable awards.
 
The Jap Panthers In The Group Award (EPIC) was began in 2009 by the EIU athletic division to advertise student-athlete involvement locally and the campus in addition to try for total private improvement. Every workforce is awarded factors on a various scale all year long primarily based on group service, educational excellence, and season accomplishments.