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Armstrong State Releases 2016 Women's Soccer Promotional Schedule, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Women's Soccer News (Archived)

Armstrong State Releases 2016 Women's Soccer Promotional Schedule. The Armstrong State University women's soccer team has reported to campus this week and the Pirates are happy to announce a slew of awesome promotions catered towards a boost in student and community support for the program.

Women's Basketball Inks Keyondra "Mercedes" Jenkins For 2016-17, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Women's Basketball News (Archived)

Women's Basketball Inks Keyondra "Mercedes" Jenkins For 2016-17. Armstrong State University head women's basketball coach Fala Bullock has announced the signing of Keyondra "Mercedes" Jenkins to play for the Pirates in the upcoming 2016-17 season.

Armstrong State Names Kim Dean Head Softball Coach, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Women's Softball News (Archived)

Armstrong State Names Kim Dean Head Softball Coach. The Armstrong State University athletic department announced the hiring of Kim Dean as the Pirates' new head softball coach today. Dean becomes the third head coach of Pirate softball since the sport was reinstated as a fastpitch varsity sport in 1998.

Exploring How Haptics Contributes To Immersion In Virtual Reality, Dimcho Zhelyazkov Karakashev, Hong Z. Tan

The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium

Virtual Reality (VR) has been around for more than fifty years but the technology hasn’t reached practical usability until very recently. With the current head-mounted display (HMD) technology and an abundance of investment in VR startups, we have finally reached at the point where it is possible to simulate complex virtual environments that feel immersive. A major problem with virtual reality is that everything looks real but you can not touch and feel virtual objects. We are focusing on developing a device that will allow users to feel what they touch in VR. We developed a hand-held interface and an …

Morgan Luckie, Cody Sherlin Earn Ncaa Degree Completion Awards, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Men's Baseball News (Archived)

Morgan Luckie, Cody Sherlin Earn NCAA Degree Completion Awards. Two student-athletes from Armstrong State University have received NCAA Degree Completion awards for 2016-17, announced this week by the organization. Women's soccer player Morgan Luckie and baseball player Cody Sherlin received the awards that will help both graduate this year.

Pirates Ready To Raid The Georgia Open This Weekend In Richmond Hill, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Men's Tennis News (Archived)

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Pirates Ready To Raid The Georgia Open This Weekend In Richmond Hill, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Men's Golf News (Archived)

Pirates Ready To Raid The Georgia Open This Weekend In Richmond Hill. The Georgia Open - a professional golf tournament sponsored by the Georgia PGA that has been played every year since 1954 - will have a bevy of current, future or former Armstrong State University players when play begins on Thursday at the Ford Plantation in nearby Richmond Hill, Ga.

Armstrong State Tennis Earns 2016 Ita All-Academic And Scholar-Athlete Awards, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Women's Tennis News (Archived)

Armstrong State Tennis Earns 2016 ITA All-Academic And Scholar-Athlete Awards. The Armstrong State University women's tennis team has earned the ITA's All-Academic Team honor, announced last week, while four women's players and three men's players have earned ITA Scholar-Athlete honors.

Armstrong State Tennis Earns 2016 Ita All-Academic And Scholar-Athlete Awards, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Men's Tennis News (Archived)

Armstrong State Tennis Earns 2016 ITA All-Academic And Scholar-Athlete Awards. The Armstrong State University women's tennis team has earned the ITA's All-Academic Team honor, announced last week, while four women's players and three men's players have earned ITA Scholar-Athlete honors.

Ua80/1 Meeting Minutes, W Club

University Organizations

Meeting minutes for the July 2016 meeting of the W Club Board of Directors.

Baseball Earns 2015-16 Abca Team Academic Excellence Award, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Men's Baseball News (Archived)

Baseball Earns 2015-16 ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award. Armstrong State University baseball has earned the 2015-16 Team Academic Excellence Award from the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA), announced today by the organization. It is the inaugural award for the organization in recognizing both high school and collegiate team academic excellence.

Baseball Adds Ben Haeussler To 2017 Signing Class, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Men's Baseball News (Archived)

Baseball Adds Ben Haeussler To 2017 Signing Class. Armstrong State University head baseball coach Calvain Culberson has announced the addition of local product Ben Haeussler to the Pirates' signing class for 2017.

Howell, Buckner Named Assistant Women's Basketball Coaches For 2016-17, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Women's Basketball News (Archived)

Howell, Buckner Named Assistant Women's Basketball Coaches For 2016-17. Armstrong State University head coach Fala Bullock has announced that Amber Howell and Katie Buckner will serve as assistant coaches on the Pirates' staff for the upcoming 2016-17 season.

Men's Basketball Announces Eight New Players For 2016-17, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Men's Basketball News (Archived)

Men's Basketball Announces Eight New Players For 2016-17. Armstrong State University head men's basketball coach Evans Davis today announced the addition of eight new players who will join the Pirate program for the upcoming 2016-17 season.

Women's Basketball Adds Five Players For 2016-17, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Women's Basketball News (Archived)

Women's Basketball Adds Five Players For 2016-17. The five incoming players are: 5-7 shooting guard Keyonna Wesley (Pearson, Ga. / Atkinson County HS); 5-3 point guard Brooke Heilman (Cumming, Ga. / Spring Hill); 5-5 shooting guard Aysia Grimsley (Marietta, Ga. / Chattahoochee Tech); 5-11 forward Kasey Drayton (St. Petersburg, Fla. / Rollins) and 5-9 forward Lauren Woods (Raleigh, N.C. / Francis Marion).

Zach Corliss Named Men's Basketball Assistant Coach, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Men's Basketball News (Archived)

Zach Corliss Named Men's Basketball Assistant Coach. Corliss served in that capacity on a temporary basis during 2015-16 and the upcoming season will mark his ninth as a part of Armstrong State basketball, first as a student-athlete in 2008-11, then as a graduate assistant in 2013-15.

Taylor: A Magazine For Taylor University Alumni, Parents And Friends (Summer 2016), Taylor University

The Taylor Magazine (1963-Present)

The Summer 2016 edition of Taylor Magazine, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

Armstrong State Volleyball Adds Six Players For 2016, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Women's Volleyball News (Archived)

Armstrong State Volleyball Adds Six Players For 2016. Armstrong State University head volleyball coach Will Condon has announced the addition of six players who will play for the Pirates this upcoming Fall 2016 season.

Armstrong State Volleyball Releases 2016 Schedule, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Women's Volleyball News (Archived)

Armstrong State Volleyball Releases 2016 Schedule. Armstrong State University head volleyball coach Will Condon has released the program's upcoming 2016 schedule, featuring three tournaments and 10 home matches for the Pirates.

Armstrong State Soccer Releases 2016 Schedule, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Women's Soccer News (Archived)

Armstrong State Soccer Releases 2016 Schedule.

Ua80/1 Meeting Minutes, W Club

University Organizations

Meeting minutes for the June 2015 meeting of the W Club Board of Directors.

More Than One Way To Measure: Masculinity In The Zurkaneh Of Safavid Iran, Zachary T. Smith

The Hilltop Review

The zurkhaneh of early modern Safavid Iran was an institution where men undertook physical training, in some ways reminiscent of a modern-day gymn. This paper attempts to theorize the zurkhaneh as a public space in which primarily non-elite men participated in the social economy of early modern Safavid Iran based upon their pursuit of the ideal of javanmardi, or young manliness. To accomplish this, this paper will combine the themes of publicity, the social utility of the body, and the authority of textuality with an examination of the physical culture of the zurkhaneh to theorize the utility, representation, and …

Winning And Losing, Mark Christians

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"There will always be winners and losers, but the focus should be on the process and not the outcome."

Posting about character development through sports from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/winning-and-losing/

Armstrong State Baseball Inks Five For 2017, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Men's Baseball News (Archived)

Armstrong State Baseball Inks Five For 2017. Armstrong State University head baseball coach Calvain Culberson has announced the signing of five players to National Letters of Intent to play for the Pirates in the Spring 2017 season. Three junior college transfers and two high school players will join a class of eight that signed in the Fall, giving Armstrong State an overall signing class of 13 players for next season.

Ua80/1 Meeting Minutes, W Club

University Organizations

Meeting minutes for the June 2016 meeting of the W Club Board of Directors.

Men's Tennis Ranked No. 3 In Final Ita Rankings; Three Pirates Earn All-American Honors, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Men's Tennis News (Archived)

Men's Tennis Ranked No. 3 In Final ITA Rankings; Three Pirates Earn All-American Honors. The Armstrong State University men's tennis team finished the 2016 season ranked No. 3 in the nation with the release of the final Oracle/ITA Division II national rankings late Wednesday. Five Pirates earned individual rankings as well from the organization.

Women's Tennis Ends Season No. 1; Four Pirates Earn All-America Honors, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Women's Tennis News (Archived)

Women's Tennis Ends Season No. 1; Four Pirates Earn All-America Honors. The NCAA Division II National Champion Armstrong State University women's tennis team tops the final national Oracle/ITA national rankings, released late Wednesday by the organization, while five Pirates earned individual national rankings.

The Transition Of Collegiate Athletes To Professional Sports: A Case Study At A California University Division One Athletic Program, David Kline

Journalism

The following study investigates the correlation between athletic success in athletes as they transition from high school or college athletics to the professional world of competitive sports. Athletes who are described as being “cant-miss prospects” are never really a sure-fire thing for professional teams, so the purpose of this study was to research and analyze what situation for athletes would be best for them specifically relating to how many years an athlete should stay in college to develop their technical skills as well as mature as a human being before forgoing their remaining college eligibility by declaring for a professional …

Gor Costales, Lucak Earn Ita Southeast Region Men's Tennis Awards, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Men's Tennis News (Archived)

Gor Costales, Lucak Earn ITA Southeast Region Men's Tennis Awards. Armstrong State University seniors Pablo Gor Costales and Otakar Lucak each earned special honors from the Intercollegiate Tennis Association during the NCAA DII Championships in Denver, Colo., earlier this month.

Carolina Prats-Millan Named Ita Dii Southeast Region Senior Of The Year, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Women's Tennis News (Archived)

Carolina Prats-Millan Named ITA DII Southeast Region Senior of the Year. Armstrong State University senior Carolina Prats-Millan has been named the ITA DII Southeast Region Women's Tennis Senior of the Year for 2016, announced by the organization at the DII National Championships in Denver earlier this month.