Recent Millikin University graduate Michael Barber, of Beecher, Ill., was named a 2018-19 Srixon/Cleveland Golf All-America Scholar for NCAA Division III on July 24.
Being a student-athlete is challenging enough – you have to juggle games, practices, classes, and everything else that comes with being a student on a college campus.
The Millikin University Athletics Department held its 5th Annual Big Blue Student-Athlete Awards Ceremony on May 7 at the Decatur Club in Decatur, Ill.
Calvin and Zach Fisher have a lot in common – they both play basketball, they both are business management majors, and they both attend Millikin University.
Student-athletes at Millikin University not only engage in Performance Learning in the classroom, but they extend that same learning process through the University's tradition of giving back to the community.
In addition to the hours spent practicing, competing and meeting their academic commitments, Big Blue student-athletes spend a number of hours serving the central Illinois community each academic year.
Millikin University, in conjunction with the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW), has announced its recipients for the Jack Swartz Award and the CCIW Academic All-Conference team for fall 2018.
Junior football linebacker Matt Brown (Champaign, Central H.S.) and senior women's soccer player Taylor Hartman (St. Anne, Herscher H.S.) were selected as the Millikin recipients of the Jack Swartz award.
Millikin University scholar athletes Erin Lukens, of Johnston City, Ill., and Anthony Bryan, of Plainfield, Ill., will continue their academic careers at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., in the Doctor of Physical Therapy program after completing undergraduate degrees in biology at Millikin in May.