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1 week ago | odusports.com | Harry Minium

Skip To Main Content Share By Harry MiniumNORFOLK, Va. – While the popular notion nationally may be that academics have taken a back seat in college athletics, Old Dominion’s 423 student-athletes had the best academic performance in school history in 2024-25. ODU’s athletes combined for a composite 3.34 grade-point average, Amy Lynch, ODU’s associate athletic director for student success, said in a recent presentation to ODU’s Board of Visitors.

1 week ago | odusports.com | Harry Minium

Skip To Main Content Share By Harry MiniumNORFOLK, Va. – So, if you’re a woman you’ve most likely never played football. But at some point, haven’t you felt like taking a running start, putting your shoulder down and laying into a football tackling dummy? Or trying your luck at kicking a field goal? Or hitting a wide receiver on the fly with a downfield pass? Or doing defensive drills on the turf at S.B. Ballard Stadium?

3 weeks ago | odusports.com | Harry Minium

By Harry MiniumNORFOLK, Va. – They weren’t among the dozens of people, from donors to fundraisers to coaches and other university officials, feted during ceremonies on Thursday afternoon as Old Dominion broke ground on the $24 million renovation of its 43-year-old baseball stadium. But at the end of the nearly hour-long ceremony, Ryne Moore and John Keane were among the 30 people who lined up to turn over the ceremonial shovel-full of dirt.

4 weeks ago | odusports.com | Harry Minium

By Harry MiniumNORFOLK, Va. – Stayce Jones has been telling her husband that she hasn’t seen him as happy or as optimistic as he is now for a long time. “She says I’m smiling a lot more,” Mike Jones said. And for good reason. The Old Dominion men’s basketball head coach had a bountiful recruiting offseason in the transfer portal that should make the Monarchs one of the teams to beat in the Sun Belt Conference in 2025-26.

1 month ago | odusports.com | Harry Minium

Skip To Main Content Share By Harry MiniumIt was an unusually hot and humid day in small town Aurora, Oregon, 95 degrees without a cloud in the sky, so coaches of the North Marion Junior Baseball team decided to cancel practice and take the kids to a local pool. The 11-year-old boys were having a blast as they rolled down a slide into the water, each trying to outdo the other.