Spartan men's head basketball coach Tom Izzo announced Wednesday that Jim Boylen has been hired as an assistant coach. Boylen returns to the same university that he coached at in previous years.
Michigan State men's soccer coach Joe Baum announced the addition of four new recruits to the Spartan fall 2005 team. The Spartans are hoping these new additions will help fill the holes of the departed seniors.
The Michigan State rowing team had two boats compete in the NCAA Championship races in Sacramento, Calf., this weekend. The Spartans finished 10th overall, ahead of Wisconsin which placed 12th, but behind Michigan and Ohio State, which finished 8th and 4th, respectively.
The MSU men's and women's track teams competed in the NCAA Mideast Regional this weekend at Indiana University.
MSU freshman sprinter Jeremy Orr hasn't had a typical track season, but that's what makes the Big Ten Men's Outdoor Track and Field Freshman of the Year award he won last week even more impressive. "I didn't really expect it," Orr said last Tuesday.
The MSU women's basketball team will be traveling to the U.S. Virgin Islands for a tournament from Nov.
The MSU women's crew team will race at the CSUS Aquatic Center on Lake Natoma in Sacramento, Calif., at the NCAA Rowing Championships on May 27-29. This is the eighth consecutive trip the Spartans are making to the NCAA Championships and fourth with an entire crew.
On Tuesday, MSU announced that assistant softball coach Kathryn Gleason has been promoted to associate head softball coach. Gleason becomes the first associate head coach in MSU softball history.
Six members of the MSU women's track team will compete this weekend at the NCAA Mideast Regional in Bloomington, Ind. Sophomore Cynetheia Rooks will compete in the prelims for the 200-meter and 400-meter dashes on Friday.
The MSU baseball team did finish its season losing three of its last four games, but the Spartans were close to winning almost all of their last nine games.
The men's track and field team will have six individuals competing Friday and Saturday in the Mideast Regional at Indiana University. Senior Julien Williams is seeded third in the long jump and will compete on Friday.
I was watching the San Antonio versus Phoenix game the other night and started laughing to myself - in reference to the Suns' performance, particularly on the defensive end of the floor. While Quentin Richardson is jogging back on defense, tapping his fists at the corners of his forehead, Manu Ginobili is flying past him for a layup.
The MSU Men's Golf team missed a chance to compete at the NCAA Championships, after finishing 13th in the Central Regional Championship this weekend at Notre Dame, Ind. The Spartans were one of 12 teams to have their first round delayed Thursday by thunderstorms, which pushed back tee times three-plus hours.
The Women's Golf team didn't expect to win an NCAA title this season, but what they did do is gain valuable experience at this year's NCAA Championships at Sunriver, Ore., where they finished 17th out of 24 teams. "It was a great spring," head coach Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll said.
The MSU baseball team finished its season with a win, after dropping the first three games on the road at Northwestern this weekend.
The MSU Women's Tennis team handed out its end-of-season awards Tuesday, after an 11-12 season. The Spartans named sophomore Sarah Andrews the Most Valuable Player in 2005; she finished the season with a record of 20-11.
The MSU Men's Track team finished 10th at the Big Ten Championships this past weekend in Columbus, Ohio. On Saturday, senior Julien Williams leaped 25 feet 1 3/4 inches in the long jump, which placed him second overall and earned the Spartans eight of their 33 team points.
The MSU baseball team was victorious on Tuesday afternoon, defeating Central Michigan 11-0 in Mount Pleasant. The Spartans (21-28) got two-RBI games from four players: sophomore shortstop Troy Krider, freshman designated hitter Tony Clausen, sophomore catcher Kris Morris and freshman second baseman Steve Gerstenberger. The Spartans finish their season this weekend, when they travel to Evanston, Ill., to take on Northwestern in a four-game series beginning at 3 p.m.
The MSU Women's Crew team finished sixth overall in the South/Central Regional Sprints at Oak Ridge, Tenn. The first varsity eight had a bad day, placing sixth in its final race.
There's no question that the MSU baseball team was going to "take some lumps" this year, as freshman center fielder Ryan Sontag put it. With five games remaining, a team that has 15 freshman and nine sophomores is getting better and has a 20-28 overall record and 9-15 in Big Ten play, good for ninth in the current standings. "We're just looking to get some more at-bats before we go to Northwestern," said MSU manager Ted Mahan.