Macalester College Athletics

Five Scots achieve water polo national academic honors

07.23 | Water Polo

Five Macalester Scots have achieved national academic honors by the Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC). Macalester student-athletes earning these honors for the '08 season are Sarah Ellerton, Kate Vermann, Alex Cortes, Kristin Mathson and Melinda Vogel.

MARC to be named The Leonard Center

05.29 | General

The new Macalester Athletic and Recreation Center will be named The Leonard Center, in honor of the late George P. Leonard '27 and his wife Wilma Fox Leonard '27 and their descendants, who have been long-time supporters of Macalester. In a resolution passed May 16, the Board of Trustees said it was honoring the family "for such unselfish generosity and magnanimous contributions for the betterment of Macalester College." The resolution said the board "extends its utmost appreciation for the lives of George and Wilma Leonard and hereby conveys to their descendants its utmost appreciation and gratitude."

Twenty winter & spring athletes receive Academic All-MIAC honors

06.27 | General, Women's Basketball, Baseball, Softball, Women's Swimming & Diving, Men's Track & Field, Women's Tennis, Women's Track & Field, Men's Tennis

Twenty Macalester College winter and spring sport athletes have received Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Academic All-Conference honors, as announced by the conference today. A total of 48 Macalester athletes have received this award this past academic year, with 28 fall sport athletes honored earlier.

Kim Chandler

Macalester names Kim Chandler new Athletic Director

06.09 | General

Kim Chandler, the athletic director at Beloit College in Beloit, Wis., has been named athletic director at Macalester College. Chandler headed the Beloit Athletic Department for four years, overseeing 18 varsity programs, academic course offerings and intramurals. She will begin July 14. Before taking charge of the Beloit program, Chandler was the head women's basketball coach for three years at Saginaw Valley State University in Saginaw, Mich., where she also served the university as Senior Women's Athletic Administrator and Assistant Athletic Director of Business Affairs for the NCAA Division II institution.