Clarksville, Ark.-Two individuals and one team were inducted into the University of the Ozarks Sports Hall of Fame Saturday at a ceremony in Mabee Gymnasium. Longtime basketball coach Louis Whorton (’76) and sprinter Percy Williams (‘84) joined 43 other former greats in the Hall of Fame. The 1983-84 men’s basketball team became the first team […]
This semester, the Ozarks campus community will have the opportunity to follow Kelly Gorny, a junior from Clarksville, Ark., as she spends five months studying teacher education at Stranmillis University College in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Kelly Gorny, a junior from Clarksville, Ark., will spend the next five months studying teacher education at Stranmillis University College […]
Clarksville, Ark.-RaShelle Goldman hit five three-pointers and scored 15 points to push the Lady Eagles to a key 50-47 win over Texas-Tyler in Thursday?s American Southwest Conference game. With the win, Ozarks moves its record to 7-7 overall and 4-5 in the ASC. Prior to the game, Texas-Tyler was tied for fourth in the East […]
Clarksville, Ark.-The Eagles put a scare into the American Southwest Conference East Division leader Thursday night only to see Texas-Tyler score 44 second half points and earn a 80-68 win. The Patriots stay atop the division with a 6-2 league mark and a 11-3 overall record. For at least one half Ozarks (4-10, 2-7 ASC) […]
Clarksville, Ark.-Louis Whorton, Percy Williams and the 1983-1984 men?s basketball team will be inducted into the University of the Ozarks Sports Hall of Fame on Saturday, January 12, 2013. Whorton, a 1976 physical education graduate and a native of Hartford, Ark., is currently the head women’s basketball coach at University of Arkansas-Fort Smith (formerly Westark […]
Glendon Jenkins, a mathematics major from Wickes, Ark., has always been fascinated by math and its principles. Now, in his senior year at University of the Ozarks, Jenkins is right in the middle of a senior project that delves into the discipline of quantum computing. Jenkins, the sixth of eight children, remembers watching his older […]
Clarksville, Ark.-Taylor Farmer scored a career-high 24 points and the Lady Eagles made 59 percent of their shots in a dominating 101-62 win over Sul Ross State University in Saturday?s American Southwest Conference game. It was the first time since 2005 that Ozarks (6-7, 3-5 ASC) scored over the century mark. The Lady Eagles last […]
Clarksville, Ark.-Ronnie Dodd and Marcus Bobb combined for 55 points to psuh Ozarks to a 88-86 overtime win against Sul Ross State University Saturday in American Southwest Conference play. The duo would come up big in overtime scoring all 13 of the Eagles’ points in the extra period. A pair of Dodd free throws with […]
Doug Black of Tulsa, Okla., is the new chairman of the University of the Ozarks' Board of Trustees. He began his two-year term on Jan. 1. Doug Black of Tulsa, Okla., is the new chairman of the University of the Ozarks’ Board of Trustees. Black was elected chairman during the board’s fall meeting, held October […]
Clarksville, Ark.-It didn?t take Scotty Pierce long to realize that the 1983-84 University of the Ozarks? men?s basketball team was going to be something special. Pierce was a senior guard for what was then The College of the Ozarks Mountaineers, and he had been a part of three losing seasons prior to the 1983-84 season. […]