DETROIT, Mich. -- Senior Susan Kalkstein (New Kensington, PA/Burell) of the women's track and field team, was named a Co-Valedictorian for the Class of 2012 at the University of Detroit Mercy and presented a speech to the graduating class during commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 12, at Calihan Hall. 

MILWAUKEE - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee men's basketball coach Rob Jeter has once again been honored by his alma mater. Jeter, along with the rest of the 1990-91 University of Wisconsin-Platteville men's basketball team, was inducted into the school's Athletic Hall of Fame Sunday.

VALPARAISO, Ind. -- Valparaiso softball’s first-ever NCAA trip will take place in Louisville, Ky., as the Crusaders learned Sunday evening that they had been placed in the Louisville Regional of the 2012 NCAA Softball Tournament.  Valpo will open regional play against the host Cardinals, the 15^th seed nationally, at 7 p.m. EDT on Friday, May 18, a game which will be televised live nationwide on ESPN2.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Milwaukee teammates Paul Hoenecke and Eric Semmelhack have been named Horizon League Baseball Players of the Week for the period of May 7-13.

MALIBU, Calif. -- The Green Bay men’s tennis team put forth a strong effort in its first NCAA Tournament appearance on Friday afternoon, but the hosts from Pepperdine proved to be too much as the Phoenix fell to the seventh-ranked Waves 4-0 at the Ralphs-Straus Tennis Center in Malibu.

VALPARAISO, Ind. – Valparaiso sophomore Angie Doerffler delivered walk-off hits in both games to lift the Crusaders to the program’s first Horizon League Softball Championship on Saturday afternoon. The title is the first for Valparaiso in any sport since the university joined the Horizon League.

Last Thursday and Friday, I was lucky enough to be among the 22 media members selected to participate in the NCAA’s annual Men’s Basketball Mock Selection, a tool the NCAA uses to educate and inform about the process.

MILWAUKEE, Wis. -- Former University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student-athletes Chad Pierce, Lindsay Laur and Sarah Hagen continue to live their dreams of playing at the professional level. We had an opportunity this week to catch up with all three of them as they continue to excel on the baseball diamond, basketball court and soccer field.