OLLU will welcome home alumni Nov. 8-9
The Office of Alumni Relations is pleased to invite alumni back to their alma mater Friday and Saturday to reconnect with classmates and friends, and share memories. Highlights of the weekend include the Alumni Awards during the President’s Reception, morning Mass with renewal of vows, the Alumni Open Forum and the Alumni Art Gallery and book signings. View the full list of events.
Jeff Stafford will deliver the presentation, “Slice of Leadership,” Thursday from 5-7 p.m. in Providence Hall, Blue Room. During this interactive event, Stafford will help students discover their place in the world without hesitations.
For more information, email halo@ollusa.edu.
Hamid Khan, EdD, PE professor of management, presented two peer reviewed papers at the International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines (IABPAD) conference held in Las Vegas, “Teaching effectiveness research using teacher behavior factors: exploratory factor analysis,” and “Teaching the legacy of authentic leadership in the ethics classroom: Transferring affective learning into behavior.”
In addition to the presentations, he was the chair and moderator of two sessions on management, marketing and international business.
He was also a discussant of technical papers presented at a session on education, learning outcomes, curriculum and students.
He was presented with certificates of professional services rendered to the Academy on chairing technical sessions, reviewing submitted papers for acceptance, and critiquing as discussant, the presentations of the accepted papers.
The women’s soccer team is set for the conference semifinals that take place Friday at the Houston Amateur Sports Park. The Saints, the No. 1-seed in the conference, will play No. 4-seed Southwest at 12:30 p.m. No. 2 Brownsville will play No. 3 Huston-Tillotson University at 3 p.m. The winners of both games will advance to the championship match on Saturday, Nov. 9 at 5 p.m.
The Saints finished the regular season as the conference champions with a 6-0 record and 14-2-1 overall. Last week, they improved to No. 19 from No. 21 in the 2013 NAIA Women’s Soccer Coaches’ Top 25 Poll.
OLLU will host a Veterans Day ceremony next Monday from 12:30-1:15 p.m. in the Mall Area. All student, faculty and staff veterans will be recognized during the event. Eric Alva, retired Marine Staff Sergeant, OLLU alumnus and civil rights activist will deliver the keynote address. Alva was the first American service member injured in the Iraq War. The event will also include a blessing of veterans, a presentation on the Fisher House, and the Armed Forces Medley. Refreshments will be served following the event.
Ceara O’Donnell was selected as the Red River Athletic Conference Women’s Cross Country Runner of the Week for the dates of Oct. 21-27. O’Donnell, a freshman from Corpus Christi, Texas, posted a time of 19:53 on the 5K course at the Mid-States Classic on Saturday. She set an OLLU record for her time and has been entered into the University’s Halo Club for Cross-Country for running the 5K in under 20 minutes. She placed 77th in a field of 162 competitors and guided the OLLU team to its best finish in three years at the event. The cross-country teams will prepare for the conference tournament that takes place this weekend in Marshall, Texas. Read more online.
The OLLU volleyball team ended the regular season with a loss and a win this past weekend. The Saints dropped two sets to three against Bacone College in Muskogee and won in three sets over Langston. The Saints end the regular season with a 9-4 record in the Red River Athletic Conference and 14-10 overall. Bacone finishes with a 9-4 conference and 19-10 overall record, while Langston drops to 3-10 in the conference and 7-16 overall.
The University of Texas at Brownsville ends the season as the top seed in the conference and in the NAIA with a 13-0 conference and 29-0 overall record. Wiley College (11-2/20-12) is the second seed in the conference, while Bacone is the third and OLLU is the fourth. The conference tournament will begin on Nov. 8 in Brownsville. OLLU will be matched up against No. 5-seeded University of St. Thomas and will play at noon. The winner of that match will play the semifinals match at 5:30 p.m., and the championship match will take place on Nov. 9 at 2 p.m. Read more online.
The men’s basketball opened its season this weekend at the Small College Tip-Off Classic. The NAIA’s No. 24-ranked Saints lost 103-95 to the NAIA’s No. 9-ranked Evangel University and 87-84 to St. Gregory’s University. The Saints will go back on the road to Fort Worth on Nov. 6 to play Texas Wesleyan University in a nonconference game at 7:30 p.m. OLLU will host its next game on Nov. 15 against MidAmerican Nazarene University at 7:30 p.m. Read more online.
The men’s soccer team ended its season last week after losing 1-0 to the University of the Southwest in the Red River Athletic Conference quarterfinals match. The fourth-seeded Saints finished the year with an overall record of 11-4-1 and a conference record of 4-2-1. Southwest, the fifth seeded team, will advance to the conference’s semifinals round on Nov. 8 in Houston. The Mustangs record is 6-8 overall and 4-3 in the conference. Read more online.
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