- May 19: UA Set To Host MAC Track Championships
Plus: City To Close Union Street During Track Meet...Softball
Players Tapped For Post-Season Awards...Baseball Team
Announces Post-Season Awards...Trenta Sets UA Record,
Gears Up For MAC Meet.
- May 13: Eight Records Fall As Zips Track Teams Gear Up To Host Mid-American Conference Meet
Plus: Johnston Tabbed For MAC's James Award...Three Zips Named
To All-MAC Softball Squad...Boyette, Williamson Earn
All-MAC Golf.
- May 4: Basketball Awards Presented
Plus: Baseball Goes 5-2 On The Week; Makeup Game Vs. Pittsburgh
Set For Wednesday...Softball Team Clinches MAC Championship;
Will Host MAC Tournament This Week...School Records Continue
To Fall For Track...Golfers Aim For Improved Finish At MAC
Championships.
- May 3: Petiya's Blast Lifts Zips Softball To #1 Seed, Mid-American Conference Tournament Host
- April 28: Georgia Prep Star Signs With Zips Women's Hoops
Plus: Softball To Entertain Penn State At Firestone...Golfers
Place Seventh At Cobra, Await MAC...LaTrese Taylor
Breaks Two School Records At B-W...Spring Sports Notes.
- April 27: Hipsher Named Ohio College Coach Of The Year
Plus: Zips Land Junior College Power Forward.
- April 23: Zips Sign Northern Virginia Basketball Star
Plus: 1998 Football Kickoff Times Solidified.
- April 21: Relay Team Lowers Its Own School Mark
Plus: Spring Sports Notes...Justin Millard Selected
Academic All-American...Zips Women’s Tennis
To Host MAC Championships...Golfers Welcome
19-Team Cobra Collegiate Field; Win NIU Midwestern
Invitational.
- April 13: Relay Teams Break UA Marks At Sea Ray
Plus: Two-Sport Athletes Keeping Busy At UA...Softball Team Flexes
Its Muscles, Moves Into First...Spring Sports Notes.
- April 8: Zips Women's Hoops Recruiting Class Reaches Five
Plus: 1997-98 Women's Basketball Awards.
- April 8: Zips Sign Point Guard Antwain Lavender; Marco Morgan Enrolled, Eligible For 1999-00 Season
- April 8: Zips Hoops Attendance Up 58 Percent Over Two Years Ago
- April 7: Six Soccer Recruits Sign With Zips
- April 6: Two Zips Gain All-MAC Honors
Plus: Hipsher To Speak In Lorain...Two NCAA Provisional
Qualifiers, Four School Records Fall In Big Week
For Zips Track Team...Spring Sports Notes.
- March 30: Hipsher Granted Three-Year Extension
Plus: Zips Notes...Three Zips Soccer Players Earn Academic
All-District...Jawanza Moore, Brooke Santek Chosen...
Ashlie Case Signs With Zips Volleyball.
- March 16: Polito Notches First UA Coaching Victory
Plus: UA To Discontinue Men's Tennis...Wozniak First
Division I Track & Field All-American...Howell Named
To All-Tournament Team...Diamond Notes/Hoop Notes.
- March 13: UA To Discontinue Men' s Tennis
- March 9: Wayne College Women Cagers Finish 24-0
Plus: Wozniak Headed To Indoor NCAAs...Baseball Opens 1998
Slate In The Sunshine State...News & Notes.
- March 5: Football Announces Staff Addition, Promotion
- March 2: Zips' Hipsher Named MAC Basketball Coach Of The Year
- March 2: Smith Chosen MAC Track Outstanding Indoor Performer
- March 2: Zips Baseball Adds To Canal Park Schedule
Plus: 1998 University of Akron Baseball At Canal Park
Schedule...Smith Dominates MAC Indoor Track
Championships...Bowles Captures MAC Post-Season Honors.
- February 26: Women's Swimming And Diving To Become Akron Varsity Sport; Brian Vereb Named Inaugural Head Coach
- February 23: Track Races On At Ohio State Invitational
Plus: University And Community Mourns Loss Of Rossi, Former Zips
Quarterback And Local Educator.
- February 16: Zips Cagers Head Down The Home Stretch
Plus: MAC Basketball Tournament Tickets...Former Pole Vault
All-American Joins UA Staff...Women’s Indoor Track Continues
To Shatter Records; Finishes Second In All-Ohio Collegiate
Championships...Alberts To Play In MAC "Legends Game"...UA
Rifle Team Shoots For The NCAA Championships...1998
"Walkabout" To Benefit UA And The Community.
- February 12: Akron-Pittsburgh Football Game Rescheduled
Plus: 1998 Schedule...Future Nonconference Schedules.
- February 9: Zips Move Back Into Top 100 In Power Ratings; Look To Host In First Round Of MAC Tournament
Plus: Volleyball Signs Stark County Star...Bosley Named MAC
Co-Player Of The Week...Track Team Has Second NCAA
Provisional Qualifier; Smith Sets Two School Records
In Weekend Meet...UA Baseball Announces Games At Canal
Park...Rifle Finishes Second In Conference Championship.
- February 8: Zips Defensive Coordinator Resigns Post
- February 4: Zips Ink 20 Grid Recruits On National Letter Day
- February 2: Wozniak Hits NCAA Provisional Qualifying Mark
Plus: Lolla, Ball And Petrucci To Be Honored At Dapper Dan...Ball
Suffers Foot Injury; Hahn Leaves Team...Hubbard With A Big
Week, Leads Zips In Pair Of Wins...Hoops Promotions.
- January 26: Track Sets Six School Records At Weekend Meet
Plus: Ford Motor City Bowl Pulls Top-10 Ratings...Zips Continue
To Move In The Power Ratings...Hardwood Injury Update...
Bowles Making Serious Bid For MAC Frosh Honors...Football
Signings To Be Announced.
- January 20: UA Student-Athlete Career Day This Sunday
Plus: Students Can Pick Up Tickets For Men’s Home Hoops...UA
Hall of Fame Banquet Set For Feb. 13...Zips Crack Top 100
In Power Ratings...Zips With Good Showing At Indoor Track
Meet...Hardwood Injury Update.
- January 13: Dusty Cover Appointed Track & Field Assistant
Plus: UA Hall of Fame Banquet Set For Feb. 13...Reader Set For
Hula Bowl Appearance...Amie Marks Is USA Today Positive
Performer...Zips Cage Teams Prep For Miami, Bowling Green.
- January 6: Lunch With The Coach Begins Tomorrow
Plus: Alumni Association To Sponsor Pre-Game Dinners...On The
Air...Eight To Be Honored At Sports Hall Of Fame Banquet;
Grant And Torma Highlight The Class Of '97.
- December 30: Lunch With The Coach Starts Up In January
Plus: 77 Student Athletes Named To UA Dean's List; Zips Have
An Outstanding Semester In The Classroom...Bahhur Joins
Women's Cage Staff...Alumni Association To Sponsor
Pre-Game Dinners.
- December 22: Hoy Named To Northern Lights All-Tourney Team
Plus: Zips Men Win At Ohio, Host Marshall and Duquesne...Zips'
Football All-Opponent Team Is Impressive...Taylor Named
To NFL All-Rookie Team.
- December 15: Lunch With The Coach Starts Up In January
Plus: Ford Motor City Bowl Tix Available...First Night Buttons
Good For Zip Basketball...Track Teams Opened Indoor Season
At Kent...Zip Men Open MAC Basketball Season At Ohio.
- December 12: Forty-Eight Letter Winners Set To Return For 1998
- December 8: Five Soccer Players Honored With Post Season Awards
Plus: Jimmal Ball Named Preseason All-America - Again...UA
Women's Track Signs Five Recruits...Four Zips Receive
Academic All-MAC Football Notice...Andre McCray Recognized.
- December 1: Six Zips Named To Academic MAC Soccer Team
Plus: Boyd Receives Conference Football Honors; McCray To
Represent Zips At Vern Smith Banquet...UA Softball Signs
Five Recruits...Women's Basketball Splits Tournament
In Colorado.
- November 24: Akron Baseball Inks Pitcher And Outfielder
Plus: UA Athletics Receives NCAA Certification Notice...UA Women's
Basketball Signs Second Recruit...Two Zips Named To MAC
All-Freshman Team...TV And New Times For Basketball
Doubleheader.
- November 18: Football Awards Presented
Plus: Kickers Bypassed For NCAA Tournament...Volleyball Campaign
Comes To A Close...Norris 53rd At X-C Regional...Women
Cagers Entertain Wright State; Men Open At 10th-Ranked Xavier.
- November 13: Ball Profiled in Sports Illustrated
- November 10: Norris To Represent UA At NCAA Cross Country Regionals
Plus: Golfers Crack Rolex Regional Rankings...Time Changes For
Women's, Men's Twin Bill...UA Soccer Team Runner-Up at
MAC Tournament...Zips Spikers Clinging To MAC Tourney
Hopes...Ten Football Seniors Say Good-Bye.
- November 10: Zips Meet Championship-Game Bound Toledo Rockets
- November 6: Zip Cager Bosley to Miss First Five Games With Back Injury
- November 3: Norris Leads Zips at Cross Country Championships
Plus: UA Soccer Team Wins MAC Regular-Season Crown; Wahl Named MAC
Player of the Week...Volleyball Splits Weekend on the Road.
- November 3: Zips Need To "Circle The Wagons" For Kent Matchup
- October 30: UA Cager Jimmal Ball Named First-Team Preseason All-MAC
- October 27: Soccer Team Gears Up For Showdown With Marshall...Apple and Wahl Win MAC Awards
Plus: Volleyball Battling For MAC Tourney Berth...UA Soccer Team
Attains National Ranking...Zips Announce Local Television
Basketball Slate...Alumni to Hold "Tip-Off Buffet" Before
Xavier Game...Lomax Wins Long Distance Award.
- October 27: Akron Hopes "Ohio Effort" Carries Over To The Road
- October 22: Fall Sports Teams Heading Down The Stretch
Plus: MAC Basketball Media Days November 4 and 5...Johnston
Tabbed MAC Scholar-Athlete...Zips to be Highlighted at
SMACO Luncheon...Golfers Win Prestigious Louisville Invite.
- October 20: Akron Homecoming Brings Bobcats, TV Cameras
- October 15: Akron Zip Quarterback Sustains Serious Knee Injury
- October 13: Ball And UA Hoops Already Gaining Attention
Plus: Basketball Media Day This Wednesday...Booters Make
"Quick Work" of Northern Illinois...Norris Leads the MAC
at All-Ohio Meet...Zips to be Highlighted at SMACO Luncheon.
- October 13: Zips Hoping to Recapture a Little Magic, a la 1996
- October 6: Zips' Greg Gromek Selected MAC Scholar-Athlete of the Week
- October 6: Booters Split Opening Weekend of MAC Play
Plus: Zips With Good Showing at EMU Tennis Tourney...Stay
Informed With The "Sports Info Line"...Volleyball 2-1
After Mini-Homestand; Santek Reaches Volleyball
Milestone...Norris Continues To Lead By Example.
- October 6: Rejuvenated Akron Eyes High-Powered High-Powered Marshall
- September 29: Akron Soccer Wins Penn State Tournament...Eller Receives MAC Honor, Lolla Gains 100th Career Victory
Plus: Robert Linton to Head Zip Athletic Club Advancement
Council...Spikers Take Two of Three at Kent
Invitational...Men's Tennis Wins Big Over St. Bonaventure.
- September 29: Zips Begin Seven-Game Season Against Central's Chipps
- September 22: Plenty of Scoring as Booters Win Fourth in a Row...Millard Receives Academic Honor
Plus: Santek Named to Third Tourney Team of Season...Tennis
Opens with Strong Showing...Golf to Take a Swing at
Another Win.
- September 22: AP #13 Louisiana State Is Next Up For Akron Zips
- September 17: 44th Annual Acme-Zip Program Set for Saturday when UA Entertains Bowling Green State Falcons
Plus: Tailgate City...44th Annual Acme-Zip Game...METRO/Zip
Express...Reader Selected for Hula Bowl...Hipsher Invited
to Speak at Coaches' Clinic.
- September 15: Golf Ties for First at Yale Fall Classic
Plus: Pigatti to Speak at Local Coaching Clinic...Antal Named
MAC Soccer Player of the Week...Two UA Volleyball Players
Honored; Sweitzer Breaks UA Career Win Record...Norris
Takes First for Second Week in a Row...Women's Basketball
Team to Participate in Northeast Ohio Race for the Cure.
- September 15: Akron Needs to Rebound for Bowling Green Falcons
- September 10: Frank Polito Named Women's Tennis Coach; Doug Geiser Appointed Video Coordinator
Plus: Rubber Bowl is the Site for Nine High School Grid
Games...Interceptions Record Stands the Test of
Time...Golf Outing Planned for UA Football Lettermen...
Marshall to Cover for Sweitzer.
- September 8: Norris Takes First as Harriers Open Season
Plus: Zips Monday Night Football...Volleyball Opens at Home
with Invitational...Zip Soccer Pushes National Power to Limit.
- September 8: Akron-Miami Matchup Pivotal in MAC East Division Race
- September 4: Schindewolf Enrolled at UA, Will Play Hoops in '98-99
- September 3: Lower Arena Sold Out for UA Hoops in '97-98
Plus: Akron-Area Walk-On Earns Grid Scholarship...Harriers to
Open Season at Goodyear Metro...Lunch With The Coach
Returns Next Week...Booters Head to Virginia for Tourney
Action...Santek Named to Tournament Team at N. C. State.
- August 25: Zips Open '97 Campaign at Sixth-Ranked Nebraska
(Followed by Saturday's game notes)
- August 18: WHLO 640-AM and WTIG 990-AM Will Air UA Football Again in '97; WAKC-TV Channel 23 to Carry Hi-lites
Plus: Scrimmage Update...MAC Caravan...Picture Day...Fall Ball
Blast...More Notes...Calendar Items.
- August 8: Eaton Expected To Miss First Week Of Camp; Woodruff, Wiggins Out For The Year
Plus: Lunch With The Coach Moved To Mondays...Three Zips In
Big 33 Game...Varsity "A" Steak Out...Trip Raffle...Alumni
Association Trips...Zip Notes...Calendar Items.
- August 4: Boyd Tabbed Street & Smith's MAC Defensive Player of Year; Zips Open Camp Friday
Plus: Zip Notes...Calendar Items.
- June 5: Zips Sign Columbia High School Cage Star
Plus: Eller Invited To Prestigious Soccer Camp.
- June 3: Sperry, Beatty Join Women's Hoops Staff
Plus: Smith Short of NCAA Field...Howell, Petrucci Named UA
Athletes of the Year.