ISU Athletics

Jeri Beggs is now officially ISU's athletics director, after serving in that role on an interim basis since May 2023. Beggs was named to the position Wednesday following a national search that began in November 2024.

Melinda Fischer is the winningest coach in Illinois State University history. A $100,000 fundraiser seeks to upgrade team facilities and provide professional development for student-athletes.

Student Athlete Mental Health Week starts Saturday, and Illinois State University has plans for every day of the week. WGLT spoke to ISU Athletics embedded counselor Lindsay Maxson, who helped develop the programming.

Illinois State University is partnering with State Farm to pack one million meals in one day for Illinois families facing food insecurity.

Andy Butler was one of the so-called Redbird 7 who died in a plane crash on April 7, 2015, while returning home from the NCAA college basketball championship game in Indianapolis.

Following a Board of Trustees meeting Friday, an Illinois State spokesperson said the university is preparing to launch a national search for a permanent athletics director in the coming weeks.

Now that the flap over spending on donor entertainment is over, and trustees have named a permanent ISU president, several interim positions need to be filled. One of those is in the Athletics Department.

Illinois State University has released summaries of an internal audit of Athletics Department spending and of an external audit commissioned in the wake of questionable expenditures that led to the resignation of Athletic Director Kyle Brennan last year.

WGLT correspondent Randy Kindred writes about a basketball game in 1940, when Jackie Robinson and the UCLA men tipped off against Illinois State in Normal.

Tom Lamonica is being inducted into the Missouri Valley Conference Hall of Fame. His passion for helping others is what made him this year’s choice for the Paul Morrison Award.