In sports, teams are often so close they’re referred to internally as “families.” At an already tight-knit university like Rockhurst, because of the amount of time spent together and supporting each other, that can re
As most student-athletes can tell you, teamwork is just that — work. But it’s also rewarding.
Rockhurst University has received the NCAA Presidents’ Award for Academic Excellence for achieving four-year Academic Success Rates of 90 percent or higher among its student-athletes for the 11th consecutive year.
For the hitters on Rockhurst University’s Hawks softball team, a can ‘o corn is usually something to be avoided.
These graduates have made their mark on RU. Now they make their mark on the world.
Hyoyoung Wells
Kristy Bayer has been named the new director of athletics at Rockhurst University, effective July 6, 2021.
Joshua Roberts had all the posters printed for Spring 2020 – his first in charge of an intramural sports program that hadn’t been given a lot of attention in the recent past. Then the pandemic hit and the posters never got off his desk.
For 2020 senior men’s lacrosse players Jason Zabel and Jake Bastien, life in early March 2020 was good. The seniors had helped the team to a No. 8 national ranking and they were two short months away from graduating. Then the downward spiral began.
Rockhurst University will begin the search for a new athletics director after the first of the year, allowing the current AD, Gary Burns, to focus on his role as head baseball coach and to assist the university’s adva
With more than 80 years of service between them, Rockhurst men’s soccer coach Tony Tocco and former Rockhurst women’s volleyball coach Tracy Rietzke have already cementing their place as legends in the University’s at
