The Mace & Crown

As spring break approaches for students, No. 24 Old Dominion wrestling heads for Binghamton, New York on March 3 to participate in the 2012 Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Wrestling Championship.  The Monarchs finished the year 13-10 with four of their last five opponents being nationally ranked. With only two seniors in Te Edwards and Joe [...]

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Old Dominion University hosted the third annual Sustainable Living Fair at Webb Center this past weekend. The fair was created by two local businesses, Five Points Community Farm Markets and Green Alternatives, to educate and inform Hampton Roads about sustainable living practices. Local businesses and organizations displayed invigorating eco-friendly ideas to ODU students and viewers [...]

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Dear Monarchs, One of the major initiatives of the eighty-first session has been to engage the student body in innovative ways. The REP ODU campaign is an example of how we have used fashion and eye-popping colors to attract attention to the various events which we have hosted, such as bike safety day, the state-senate [...]

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Trian Illiadis traveled to a few continents to attend Old Dominion University and play basketball.  So far neither he nor the university is regretting that decision. The 6-foot-3-inch senior from Australia is averaging 8.5 points per game as well as being one of the leaders in the Colonial Athletic Association in assists at 2.4 per [...]

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The Old Dominion University Swim and Dive teams are racing towards the end of their seasons and both the men and women are looking to finish strong.  The Colonial Athletic Association Championships are set to start this week with dive beginning on Wednesday and swim on Thursday. “We’re looking forward to that, we’re getting excited [...]

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BIKE ODU, a new bike share program, will be starting next fall with plans to acquire 35 to 50 bicycles for Old Dominion University members to use. This semester began a pilot program with three bikes available to faculty, staff and students.  The bicycles are located in the human movement sciences department and the Outdoor [...]

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Sophomore Joey Burney’s triple in the bottom of the sixth inning gave his team the go ahead 2-1 lead. Old Dominion would add four insurance runs to defeat Temple 6-2 in the second game of a  double header Saturday at Bud Metheny Complex. “Before the game I was just talking to coach [Karl] Nonemaker about [...]

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The Monarchs’ bats were frustrated for the first five innings. Unable to get anything off Temple’s starting pitcher Matt Hockenberry, the team struggled to create any offense. At one point they were retired nine times in a row. Then the bats woke up. A two run sixth inning, two more in the eighth and ultimately [...]

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The Old Dominion Lady Monarchs (9-16, 6-7) took on the Drexel Lady Dragons (12-11, 8-5) at home in a Colonial Athletic Association matchup pitting two teams looking to make a late season push heading into the CAA tournament. The Lady Monarchs led by the number four scorer in the CAA, Tia Lewis, looked to provide the home [...]

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In the 2011 spring lacrosse season, Old Dominion finished with a 4-11 record, and 3-4 CAA record.  Instead of looking in the past with regret, the Lady Monarchs are looking into the present with eyes wide open. “In terms of last years record, they’re not going to put up with that,” Interim head coach Heather [...]

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